Story Musgrave Quotes

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

I want my words to survive translation.

I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

A different language is a different vision of life.

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.