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England Quotes

I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I’ve no regrets Picture Quote #1

I really wouldn’t want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor Picture Quote #1

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England Picture Quote #1

The difference between the American version of ‘Live Aid’ and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar Picture Quote #1

Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it’s basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams Picture Quote #1

I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat Picture Quote #1

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The day I’m in England performing, English security let a man in a Batman suit climb Buckingham Palace. I felt so much safer... Batman was on the wall of Buckingham Palace for five hours. Wouldn’t happen in America - three minutes: dead Batman Picture Quote #1

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine Picture Quote #1

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show Picture Quote #1

In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn’t fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke Picture Quote #1

. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . Picture Quote #1

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global Picture Quote #1

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I’ve always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We’re still suffering from that Picture Quote #1

My parents didn’t go to university and weren’t brought up in England. They hadn’t heard of any other universities other than ‘Cambridge’ or ‘Oxford.’ Picture Quote #1

I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can’t really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there’s already information everywhere Picture Quote #1

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can’t sustain a career in just English movies Picture Quote #1

I’ve noticed in England once people reach a certain level they feel they have to get married Picture Quote #1

Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a ‘Regency’ feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers Picture Quote #1

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My record shows that I’m not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years Picture Quote #1

I’m a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it’s been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate Picture Quote #1

Where I’m from, we don’t do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don’t want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching Picture Quote #1

I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing Picture Quote #1

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father’s childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s Picture Quote #1

The first 10 years of my life, I lived as ‘Matangi.’ When I came to England in 86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn’t say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, ‘Just call yourself something else.’ Picture Quote #1

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As for the very first settlers, they were not even free. The founders were not a chosen people except in the old Australian joke that they were chosen by the best judges in England Picture Quote #1

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we’ll shake England for God Picture Quote #1

My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish Picture Quote #1

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning Picture Quote #1

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim Picture Quote #1

Let’s be clear, I’m one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England Picture Quote #1

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I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I’ve no regrets. (England Quotes) I really wouldn’t want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor. (England Quotes) I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England. (England Quotes) The difference between the American version of ‘Live Aid’ and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar. (England Quotes) Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it’s basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams. (England Quotes) I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat. (England Quotes) The day I’m in England performing, English security let a man in a Batman suit climb Buckingham Palace. I felt so much safer... Batman was on the wall of Buckingham Palace for five hours. Wouldn’t happen in America - three minutes: dead Batman. (England Quotes) One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine. (England Quotes) I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show. (England Quotes) In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn’t fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke. (England Quotes) . . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . . (England Quotes) Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global. (England Quotes) I’ve always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We’re still suffering from that. (England Quotes) My parents didn’t go to university and weren’t brought up in England. They hadn’t heard of any other universities other than ‘Cambridge’ or ‘Oxford.’ (England Quotes) I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can’t really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there’s already information everywhere. (England Quotes) Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can’t sustain a career in just English movies. (England Quotes) I’ve noticed in England once people reach a certain level they feel they have to get married (England Quotes) Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a ‘Regency’ feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers. (England Quotes) My record shows that I’m not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years. (England Quotes) I’m a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it’s been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate. (England Quotes) Where I’m from, we don’t do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don’t want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching. (England Quotes) I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing. (England Quotes) I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father’s childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s. (England Quotes) The first 10 years of my life, I lived as ‘Matangi.’ When I came to England in 86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn’t say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, ‘Just call yourself something else.’ (England Quotes) As for the very first settlers, they were not even free. The founders were not a chosen people except in the old Australian joke that they were chosen by the best judges in England. (England Quotes) Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we’ll shake England for God. (England Quotes) My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish. (England Quotes) My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. (England Quotes) At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. (England Quotes) Let’s be clear, I’m one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England (England Quotes)

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