England Quotes - Page 19

• England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

  Melina Mercouri

  War, Blood, Greek

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• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  Patrick Macnee

  Talking, Years, House

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• I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

  Romany Malco

  Europe, Paris, Republic

  "Romany Malco Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN, UNSUPERVISED, and His YouTube Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, Media, World

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• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  Victoria Moran

  Queens, Order, Mind

  "The Case for Turning ‘Spa’ into a Verb" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Theatre, Dialect, Half

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

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• I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Mean, Years, Theatre

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

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• There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Country, Successful

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

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• People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Stupid, People, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

  Jamie Oliver

  Long, Mouths, Opinion

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

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• My life is really so much based in England.

  Jamie Oliver

  Life Is

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

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• In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].

  Oliver Cromwell

  Kings, Support, Trials

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• My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

  Desmond Llewelyn

  Father, Games, Australia

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• When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

  Trevor Nunn

  War, Historical, Musical

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• I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

  Andy Partridge

  Football, Hero, Scotland

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• Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

  Andy Pick

  Class, Play, Careers

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• You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.

  Archie Panjabi

  People, Asking, Way

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

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• Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Queens, Hands, Office

  "Queen urges Cwealth leaders to be bold". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. October 28, 2011.

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• After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

  Suzi Quatro

  Moving, Years, Names

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• I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Two, Three, Injury

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• Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

  Natasha Richardson

  New York, Moving, Who I Am

  "My family and other actors". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2003.

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• Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Greatness, Germany, Shapes

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• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Appreciate

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• Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

  Bernie Taupin

  Idaho, Cities, Rest Of Your Life

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

  John Terry

  Two, Choices, Proud

  "John Terry reveals his pain over being stripped of England captaincy" by Mark Redding, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2010.

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