The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

- Anurag Kashyap

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

- Asghar Farhadi

The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.

- Ann Maxwell

It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.

- Alex Graves

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

- Alex Graves

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

- Andrew Eldritch

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

- Agnes Smedley

There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.

- Adam Mansbach

'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.

- ASAP Ferg

Go West, young man.

- Aaron Burr

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

- Ang Lee

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

- Alex Trebek

As a cultural product of both 'East' and 'West', I do not believe there is a fundamental basis for a clash of civilisations, or that the West is the cause of all problems.

- Ahmed Zewail

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West was a wonderful world to me. I decided then that if this is the way they did things, then I wanted to be part of it.

- Angela Merkel

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

- Amiri Baraka

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

- Abdullah II of Jordan

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

- Aaron Sorkin

Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

- Aaron Sorkin