Quotes About Tradition

When I was nine or 10, I remember having a dinner party at my mum and dad's house. I wanted to have a Thanksgiving dinner because I'd watched so many films that had Thanksgiving in it and I thought: 'Why do we not celebrate this?' So I cooked this big Thanksgiving dinner for probably 10 people and I wouldn't let anybody help me.

I don't ever remember a dinner party, a cocktail party in our house ever. It was always family.

I've always been interested in Jewish culture, but never had a chance to dip into it.

I am a Kathak dancer, and have got an advanced diploma in it.

Pop's not a dirty word to me.

My father taught me to play the sitar when I was seven years old. He and his elder disciples oversaw my teaching from the beginning, looking after my scale work, the poor things.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

I had to learn Odissi dance and it is a very difficult discipline.

It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.

My father and I always discuss cricket.

My father, he made chili; that was probably his favorite dish to make.

Rajma chawal is my all-time favorite dish.

Everything I do is about Chinese culture. My dishes have to symbolize something because they taste better when people understand.

I love making dishes that my mother used to make.

I always wear Disney pyjamas on Christmas morning.

It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies.

I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world.

In India, public display of affection is frowned upon.

I don't like 7-footers shooting threes, it's a disrespect to the game for me.

I break out in hives whenever I hear the word disrupt applied to cooking.

The role of matriarch and patriarch are distinct, and in the King family, we have been blessed with strong examples of both.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

The question is not how do we get diversity into bluegrass, but how do we get diversity back into bluegrass?