Yayoi Kusama Quotes

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about.

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.

Everything has changed since I came to China.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process.

The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.

I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

What would I do now, at age 48, if I were deported to a country that I have not seen in more than 40 years and whose language I no longer speak? How would I work? How would I survive?