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"I recognize the inequities certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery. I know all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participate, I can invest my money, I can invest my time, and that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me."
"Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you."
"If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning."
"Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture."
"I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr."
"Dinner theater is anti-culture."
"And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living."
"Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture."
"Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition."
"Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community."
"I wrote a novel called "Blonde," which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture."
"It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history."
"A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress."
"Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing."
"There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures."
"Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on."
"The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture."
"All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer."
"The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it."
"If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things."
