Best quotes by Munira Mirza on Culture

Checkout quotes by Munira Mirza on Culture

• ‟ It's important that we challenge the culture of low expectations. You need to believe every child can do well.

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• ‟ By appeasing the anti-racism lobby and affirming its culture of grievance, public institutions and business leaders are not making Britain a fairer place. In fact they are harming the very people they aspire to help.

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• ‟ For many there is a degree of constancy in our culture; London won't let you down.

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• ‟ Culture is the glue that really binds, especially in cities with fast-growing populations.

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• ‟ But I do love working for Boris because he never stops. He's always fizzing with good ideas, and when you are looking after culture, that is important. He's quite ambitious for London.

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• ‟ Why is London particularly attractive for artists? It's partly this incredible concentration of organizations that have a long history but also the spontaneous and informal culture and the opportunities in London.

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• ‟ We want young people to get every opportunity to experience culture, to understand it and to think it is for them.

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• ‟ Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be steered towards popular culture like hip-hop, new media and film on the basis that they will find older art forms such as opera or ballet irrelevant.

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• ‟ There's been a kind of inverse snobbery about culture. I get the feeling some people would look at Shakespeare and say, that's a bit too intimidating for working-class people.

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• ‟ We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

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• ‟ Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.

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• ‟ A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.

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