"There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done."

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"There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done."

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"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Culture, Diet, Opinion, Social

"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Culture, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Culture, Society, Storytelling, Tradition

"Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio the minute we come into the house or start the car. The pollution of noise in our cities is as destructive as the pollution of air. We show our fear of silence in our conversation: I wonder if the orally-minded Elizabethan's used "um" and "er" the way we do? And increasingly prevalent is what my husband calls an articulated pause: "You know." We interject "you know" meaninglessly into every sentence, in order that the flow of our speech should not be interrupted by such a terrifying thing as silence."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Culture, Silence, Fear, Conversation

"The pure modernist is merely a snob, he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Culture, Fashion, Snobbery, Identity

"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Culture, Horror, Darkness, Hope, Romance

"Without the library, you have no civilization."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Culture, Civilization, Knowledge, Learning

"Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Culture, Reticence, Language, Identity

"My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Culture, Music, Preference, Family, Conflict

"Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Culture, Food, Ethics, Habit

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"There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done."

Culture, Perspective

"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."

Film, Job, Television, Theater

"I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents."

People, Fact, World

"I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground."

People, Feet

"I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do."

Time, Choices

"I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much."

Love, Movies, Theatre

"I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry."

Love, Play

"Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far."

Actor, Actors, Play, Want, Will

"I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human."

Science, Fact, Fiction

"The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week."

Character, Actors, Advice, Months