Brits Quotes - Page 3

• By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

  Peter York

  Real, Class, Hair

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• The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

  Donna Leon

  Writing, Kissing, Letters

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• Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Shoes, Boots, Bargains

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• German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

  Brian Lumley

  Real, Knowing, Thrill

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• I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

  Noel Gallagher

  Voice, People, Musician

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• Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.

  Karina Longworth

  Sex, Lying, Action

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• I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

  Jason Priestley

  Wife, Canada, Feels

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• You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.

  Harry Styles

  Crazy, Winning, Emotional

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you ever think of moving back?" "To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first time Gavin asked me out it was just to hear me talk. Lucky for him, it's one of the things I do best." All teasing left her eyes. "Too many memories back home. Can't drive down the street without thinking I see Scott in the crowd.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Moving, Home

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• Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.

  Kevin Hearne

  Lawns, Lad

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.107, Del Rey

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• Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?" "No, Matthew. What do they say?" "The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kings, Mean, Long

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• Brit: What's your major? Alex: Chemistry. And yours? Brit: Chemistry. Kiss me so we can see if we still have it. 'Cause you own my heart, my soul, and everything else in between.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Kissing, Soul

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• A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Should Have, Theatre

  "Emilia Clarke: out of the dragon's den". Interview With Emma John, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2013.

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• But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Home, House, Citizens

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• People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

  Rick Wakeman

  People, Zappa, Frank

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• I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

  David Morrissey

  Art, Thinking, Fans

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• I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.

  Sonya Walger

  Thinking, Availability, People

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• I met Ellie Goulding at the BRITs. She's lovely. I've got a lot of time for her. I gave her congratulations and whatnot and she let me hold her BRIT. That was amazing - once I'd touched one for the first time, I said 'This cannot be the last time I touch a BRIT.

  Tinie Tempah

  Congratulations, Lovely, Lasts

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• I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

  Katy B

  Art, School, People

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• I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

  Hayley Atwell

  Thinking, Guy, Vices

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• I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.

  Hayley Atwell

  Thinking, Guy, Dry

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• We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

  Evan Davis

  Heart, Museums, Government

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• Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

  Stephan Pastis

  Cutting, Way, Sense Of Humor

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• There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

  Rob James-Collier

  Mind, Television, Wave

  "'Downton Abbey' Cast Spills Secrets on Hollywood Ambitions at Season 3's U.S. Premiere". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.

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• As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.'... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.

  Eric Weiner

  Negativity, Misery, Kind

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