Quotes About Tradition

I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.

I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.

I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.

The public doesn't want new music.

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

If you crave an anti-new year New Year, consider adopting Rosh Hashana as your own.

The New Year is probably the biggest celebration in Russia.

I find the time between Christmas and New Year really difficult. You don't know whether you're supposed to be in pyjamas, eating mince pies or on some detox diet. You're all over the place.

Everyone was a footballer in my family. My grandfather Wilf played for Newcastle and my cousins play. It's in the blood.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan...' and they would say, 'Have fun!'

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

I see myself helping the next generation of dancers who come along, helping them to keep the dance focused, so we don't get into a position where they're saying in 2050, or whatever, that around 2001 or 2002 or something the dance died.

I want to take Chinese cooking to the next level and bury the takeaway mentality.

For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.

The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect.

No one knows exactly when I got the nickname Doro, but I've been called that as long as anyone can remember.