Rhianna Pratchett Quotes

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.

British comedy fans go crazy.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

I can understand my popularity with the Indian diaspora, but I do get surprised when non-Indians recognise my music.

We recognize that there have been acts in the past that are Asian or Korean who tried to go, 'Hey, I'm a huge star in Korea, I'm a huge star in Asia so you guys need to respect me for being a huge star there.' But I don't know. As much as we may be big, we have to be very humble and start from the ground up in the States.

I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that you sometimes lack. We have a very long history of importing Brits like Christopher Hitchens who are better at it than Americans are.

I grew up with all cultures in the world.

If somebody has no sense of humor, I think that's a great place to start for British comedy in terms of your character.

When I perform in another country. The local people there sing along to my song in Korean.

It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It's a way to show respect.

In Singapore, when we actually met foreign fans and talked to them, it was like 'Wow! They really exist!'

I want to be worldwide, international, in everyone's ears, and everyone listening to what I'm saying, because I think I say some good stuff.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.