Wade Barrett Quotes

I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.

I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.

My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

I have no regrets about being who I am and being what I am in my country for my people. No regrets at all.

I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.

My whole British culture in growing up is still with me for sure. I'm very grateful for that.

I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

My Britishness waters my music down!

Lana is 100 percent an extension of me, but just one side of me. I feel that's what I get really excited about because on 'Total Divas,' you are going to see other sides of me.

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as a sort of box that has sprung you but is only worthy of your scorn, because it once contained you. And I've been tempted to say foolish things, like "I am an American writer" or "I belong nowhere," but the truth is I'm perfectly proud of identifying as an Indian writer, even if that might hurt my bottom line.

Lena Dunham or Miranda July, those people are sort of thinking about their work in a slightly different way than I do, where their whole body is a seed of what they're creating. I can't imagine watching Miranda's movies with anybody else playing her role, she's so integral. But for me, it feels more like every story is really individual. If I thought of something else, or thought it should be my body representing it, I'd fold my body into it. But most of the time I'm writing to get something out of my body.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.