Ludwig Goransson Quotes

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

I think I'm more European in personality.

Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.

My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

I am a man by nature and a Frenchman only by accident.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so much on those parts of my identity. I've always thought of myself simply as a normal, unhyphenated American.