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• People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

  Annabelle Wallis

  Thinking, People, Abbey

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• Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

  Sally Phillips

  People, Confusing, Wealthy

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• We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

  Akio Morita

  Believe, Office, Want

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 182), 1986.

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• I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Girl, Book, School

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.

  Eddie Izzard

  War, Hunting, People

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• What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

  Jenny Eclair

  Agents, Want, Internet

  "Me and my travels". Interview With Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

  Tom Hooper

  Film, Rich, Imagery

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.

  Rose Byrne

  Art, Class, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to appreciate the simple things. I've just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.

  Bill Bailey

  Morning, Holiday, Son

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Two

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• Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

  Boy George

  Boys, Voice, Vowels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

  Richard E. Grant

  Thinking, Actors, Cases

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• I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

  Emily Mortimer

  Writing, School, Dancer

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• I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Spices, Enough

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

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• Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

  Emma Thompson

  Dream, Real, Home

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• I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."

  Robert Orben

  Couple, Hero, Night

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• Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Horse, Kings

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• Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her and I said, 'That’s not cool, that’s really mean.’

  Cara Delevingne

  Girl, Baby, Mean

  "Burberry Model Cara Delevingne is too posh to play Posh Spice in Spice Girls musical" by Richard Eden, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 26, 2011.

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• I cant wait until Im able to afford really posh bags.

  Alexandra Roach

  Waiting, Bags, Able

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• When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.

  Cilla Black

  Running, Clothes, Blue

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• I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

  Matthew William Goode

  Purple, Parent, Born

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants.

  Dennis Skinner

  Boys, Class, Trouble

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• I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

  Celia Imrie

  Trying, Bags, Mouths

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• Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.

  Neal Stephenson

  Past, Phones, People

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, Reading, People

  "Learning curve" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

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