Richard O'Brien Quotes

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Richard O'Brien

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• I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Culture
  • Motorcycle
  • Lot

• I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Music
  • Influence

• There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Culture
  • Without
  • Terrorism

• Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Culture
  • Pressure

• It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Culture
  • Never
  • Early

• I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Humanity

• There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Art
  • Book
  • History

• To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Culture
  • Green

• Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • History
  • Culture

• Our self-esteem and conceit are European, but our culture and actions are Asiatic.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Culture

• I wear anything of culture, from the Earth or beyond. The whole planet is my shop.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Earth
  • Culture

• We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • American
  • Culture

• I know from my experience in theater that the crowd is different every night; the reactions, the tension. But it's true for film as well, going from country to country and culture to culture. The difference between California and New York responses, for example. It's really fascinating.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Different
  • Country
  • Experience

• Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Work
  • American
  • Culture

• I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Culture

• I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Live
  • Job

• Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Give

• When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • Long
  • She

• And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Wind
  • Winter

• There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Good
  • News
  • Piers Morgan

• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  

  Richard O'Brien
  • Culture
  • Influence
  • Britain