Andrea Riseborough Quotes

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Cultivate the company and friendship of people outside your community, and come to know them as well as your own. The understanding and appreciation that develop from such social contacts is the best way of removing inter-state differences, and makes life richer and more interesting.

I make it my business to be around people that don't look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them.

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.

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.

As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

We need to educate young people, give them the possibility to understand that the diversity is positive, to feel and experience it, so that they can then join forces in promoting more diverse world.

In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

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.

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

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.