#cult

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different. ↗

— Bai Ling

#china #culture #different #different places #english

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#black #conscious #culture #especially #grew

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#comedy #cry #difficult #easier #i

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#cultivated #fans #feel #i #i feel

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#culture #guns #hands #holding #holding hands

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#did #difficult #explain #film #found

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#difficult #down #feel #more #next

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#culture #i #i think #manifestation #our

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#awaken #capacities #difficulties #existence #i

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#history #knowledge #like #origin #past