England Quotes - Page 26

• I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

  Bernie Worrell

  Music, Boston, Lessons

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• I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

  Peter Shilton

  Years, Goal, Settings

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• In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

  Nigel Cole

  Class, Aristocracy, Film

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• In England, your life is your life.

  Eric Cantona

  Life Is

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• 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 sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

  Alice Eve

  California, Half, Littles

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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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• It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

  John Amery

  Russia, People, Acting

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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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• I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

  Monica Ali

  Children, Writing, Holiday

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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 England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Growing Up, Legends, Arthurian Legend

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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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• I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.

  Rupert Everett

  Animal, England And America, Political

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• Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

  Rupert Friend

  Growing Up, Home, California

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

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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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• Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

  Walter Scott

  Dragons, Saint George, Castles

  Walter Scott (2016). “Ivanhoe, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.1”, p.297, VM eBooks

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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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• The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

  Richard Dawson

  War, Color, Europe

  "Family Feud". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1976 - 1985).

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• The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Numbers, Women's Suffrage, Firsts

  Millicent Fawcett (2017). “Women's Suffrage”, p.39, Litres

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• I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

  Steven Gerrard

  Coaching, Break, Badges

  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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• I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.

  Freddie Highmore

  Thinking, Weather, Hot

  Interview with Steave Head, www.ign.com. July 15, 2005.

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