Andrea Navedo Quotes

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it's very different from North America, but it's great to be forced into a situation to meet new people and learn new techniques.

Turkey was a great experience for me, both personally and professionally. I met some really good people and had an excellent time on and off the pitch. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it was great to experience a new culture.

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

I'm with expanding in my culture, from the Dominican Republic all the way to Cape Verde. Please believe that.

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

'Dust Off And Dance,' the album, was really all about me being in England.

The world itself is already a great textbook.

We have a unique culture.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

I haven't been to Nigeria, but my dad and I have talked about going. I have a grandma over there who's been here.

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

I learned a lot in Spain.

Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.