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Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

~Geoffrey Rush

Topics: Anyone Artistic Basically Bent Coast Culture Dad Every Had Ideas Liked Lived Much Nation Our Outsider Particular People Piano Playing Pool Reading School Sissy Surf Swimming Swimming Pool Then Time Very Viewed Who Within You Your

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I live in Australia, and I am Australian, and because I grew up in an era where we didn't have a film industry, and now we do, it's just really exciting for me to be able to say that I work in my own culture in a medium that I find fascinating.

~Geoffrey Rush

Topics: Able Am Australia Australian Because Culture Era Exciting Fascinating Film Film Industry Find Grew Industry Just Live Me Medium My Own Now Own Really Say Up Where Work I Am

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One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: About Amazing Cases Culture Develop Economy Even Functional Kind Level Organization Own Remarkable Remarkably Resilient Slums Social Some Things

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The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Autonomy Claim Culture Deepest Derive Existence External Face Forces Heritage His Historical Individual Individuality Life Modern Modern Life Overwhelming Preserve Problems Social Technique

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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Absorb Constantly Culture Energies Entirety Grow Growing Impersonal Individual Less Modern More More And More Objective Out Subjective

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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

~George Boole

Topics: Abstraction Converse Culture False Fatal Forms Growth Intellect Likely Many Masculine Most Perhaps Premature Prove

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Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

~George C. Wolfe

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I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.

~George C. Wolfe

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In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

~George Clooney

Topics: About American American Culture Bob Bob Dylan Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Culture Dylan Elements Everybody Great Growing Growing Up Just Movement Protest Rights Rights Movement Song Songs Time Up Were Women

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One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

~George Crumb

Topics: Aspect Contemporary Culture Degree Extension Geographical Historical Important In The Past Might Musical Our Past Say Senses Some Supremely Unknown Very

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