Britain Quotes - Page 12

• In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.

  Aphex Twin

  Successful, America, Underdog

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"

  Aphex Twin

  Thinking, Guy, This Guy

  "A Conversation With Aphex Twin". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.

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• We're being attacked, Britain is being attacked, our allies are being attacked because we've installed and backed and implemented a set of policies in the Middle East for the last years or more.

  Michael Scheuer

  Years, Allies, Middle East

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system, our government, came from. And to some extent this failure is shared in places like Britain and Canada and Australia.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Government, Australia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Differences, Way

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, People, Four

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, Civilization, Voice

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

  John Gimlette

  Phones, Views, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote - I'm thinking of Newfoundland - feel very connected though the radio.

  John Gimlette

  Successful, Thinking, America

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

  John Gimlette

  Community, Radio, Way

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.

  John Gimlette

  Media, Feelings, Way

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

  Charles R. Morris

  Thinking, Degrees, Finals

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, Government, Challenges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

  Charles R. Morris

  Technology, Mindset, Instinct

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I grew up on Bond, and it is part of my culture, especially in Britain. Just to be known as a Bond girl is an incredible thing for me, because some of my favorite actresses have been Bond girls, like Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman, and they have continued to work and be brilliant. I am honored and flattered to be called that, even though I don't really think my character is Bond-girly, but I'm still going to be labeled as a Bond girl, which is completely brilliant.

  Gemma Arterton

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  "Female Bond-ing". Interview with Bonnie Laufer-Krebs, quantumofsolace.tribute.ca.

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• I only do children's films now! I think when you go to LA some people feel you've defected a little bit and that's not really the case. Ideally, I would love to work here and to work in America. That's in an ideal world. In fact, I came back to Britain recently to do an ITV1 drama that will be out in April for a couple of months! But I'm flying back to LA to do a pilot season. So, to work in both places is great.

  Ashley Jensen

  Children, Couple, Drama

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Honestly, I was just happy to get the work. I was chuffed to bits. I know David Furnish and Elton John a bit and I remember David talking very excitedly about it. This was going back four or five years even, when we were doing Little Britain at the Hammersmith Apollo. I'd lost my voice that night, but still did the show. I remember thinking: "God, they're going to think that's my voice and I'm not going to get in the film!" But it's just been a pleasure to be a part of.

  Matt Lucas

  Thinking, Night, Voice

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Thinking, Weather, Forever

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

  John Cleese

  Failing, Envious, Bunch

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Today, Chickens, Dishes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances...If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

  James C Humes

  Writing, Leader, Doe

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• Little Britain… ever since it first came on… I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain.

  Paul Feig

  Wife, Lots Of Friends, Hot

  "Bridesmaids - Paul Feig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am very proud that Britain has helped to lead a stronger case on climate change in the EU and the EU has led the case across the world.

  Liz Kendall

  Stronger, Climate, World

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed about the European Union. And we do not believe and have not believed for at least 10 years that Britain should be part of the euro.

  Lionel Barber

  Believe, Taken, Years

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.

  Lionel Barber

  Real, Thinking, Unions

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". Interview with Scott Simon, wksu.org. June 11, 2016.

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