Tony Wilson Quotes

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

London's got less of a group identity because it's a melting pot and it's bigger. Whereas if you're from Glasgow or Newcastle or wherever, the group atmosphere is already there.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves.

Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.

When you travel like I do, just within our own country the atmosphere is different. The environment is different; the way people talk is different. The energy is different. And that's just material-wise, with the local culture.

If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie.

I have lived my whole life in Delhi. I used to live in Rohini and then I moved to Munirka. I have seen north and south Delhi very closely. That's why my songs and raps have a Dilli waali feel to it. Delhi made me who I am today and I am proud of it.

I think it's important to learn about the culture of the place where you live.

Glasgow is a city, but it's one with a small-town mentality.

Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.

Kolkata does not look like a Delhi or Mumbai. The city has its identity.

London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.

Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.

When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

You know, those iconic things we wanted to throw in for fun, but I think the point to see it was to see how totally different it was from what Len wanted to do with it. It's a different beast completely.

Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!

I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.