England Quotes - Page 20

• When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

  Juno Temple

  Fun, Home, My Friends

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• I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Team, Squad, People

  "Jonny Wilkinson announces his retirement from international rugby" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm not really accepted. In New Zealand now, I don't think they even think of me as a New Zealander.

  Andrew Niccol

  Thinking, America, Long

  "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

  Louis Leakey

  Father, Years, Kenya

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• I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.

  Robin Leach

  Dream, Rain, House

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

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• Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

  Robert Walpole

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• England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.

  Dan Smoot

  Strong, Ideas, Government

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• In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wish, World, Finished

  'The White Cliffs' (1940) p. 70

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• Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

  Adele

  Awards, Gold, Records

  "Women in Music: Adele". Interview with April Long, www.elle.com. June 15, 2009.

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• Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

  Homer

  Needs, Funny Simpsons, Funniest Simpsons

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• A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Looks, Use

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• I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

  Terri Windling

  Home, Years, Six Months

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• I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.

  Dave Gibbons

  Book, Italian, Thinking

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• It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Song, America, People

  "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview, collider.com. Ocotber 6, 2010.

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• Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

  Pierre Dukan

  Thinking, America, Addiction

  "The Saturday interview: Dukan diet creator Pierre Dukan". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Moving, America, Band

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• England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

  Stephen Daldry

  Running, Silly, Garden

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

  Stephen Daldry

  Successful, Class, People

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

  Steven T. Katz

  West, Poet, Jew

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• I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Born

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• I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

  Bill Skarsgard

  War, Sweden, Might

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• I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

  Edwin Starr

  Would Be, Following, Has Beens

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• Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Air, Years, Two

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• It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

  J. B. Priestley

  Church, Ends, Hard

  1962 In the New Statesman, 20 Jul.

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