England Quotes - Page 18

• Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

  Steve Coogan

  Appreciation, America, Done

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 17, 2009.

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• I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

  Rupert Friend

  Middle Of Nowhere, Grew Up, Countryside

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

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• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  Andy Gibb

  Australia, Years, Spain

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• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

  Kate Adie

  Girl, Teacher, Nice

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• But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

  Lily Allen

  Daughter, Song, Dad

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

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• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Grandmother, Great Love

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". Interview with Noreen O'Donnell, www.reuters.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

  Alan Bradley

  Growing Up, Tired, Talking

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• I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.

  Alice Englert

  Country, School, Australia

  "Alice Englert Spills 'Beautiful Creatures' Secrets!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. February 7, 2013.

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• There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

  Charlie Haden

  Nice, Boston, People

  "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

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• And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Trust, Kings, Dust

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

  W. H. Auden

  Fall, Science, Garden

  'Look, Stranger!' (1936) no. 1

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• And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?

  David Brewster

  Depressing, Art, Struggle

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• Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

  Jane Campion

  Acting, Television, Littles

  "Anna Makes It a Family Business / Jane Campion's sister's debut film is `Loaded'" by Mick La Salle, www.sfgate.com. April 17, 1996.

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• You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

  John Mahoney

  Emotional, Boys, Attachment

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• My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

  Matthew William Goode

  Country, Dream, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

  Alister Hardy

  Heart, Mind, Church

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• Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Mean, Player, Years

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• In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Worry, Looks, Surroundings

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• If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Japan, Suffering

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• Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later.

  Max Irons

  Years, Coats, Favorites Things

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• I love a good fitted suit. England is known for men who can wear good suits.

  Joe Jonas

  Men, Suits, Known

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• I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

  Peter James

  Book, America, News

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.

  Theo James

  Girlfriend, Believe, Weekend

  "Theo James Talks BEDLAM and UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Should Have, Years

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

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• We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Country, Winter, Hands

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