Wales Quotes - Page 6

• I grew up surfing on the north coast of New South Wales, and on most of the beaches, women never wore tops. When we were 10 or 11, me and my mates couldn't drive, so they'd take us surfing and then sit on the beach topless and read a book. I don't know if I quite saw them sexually, but there was physical intrigue.

  Simon Baker

  Beach, Book, Surfing

  "Fabulous Baker Boy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 05, 2008.

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• South Wales is a hub of aviation.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Aviation, South, Hub

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

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• I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.

  John Gimlette

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

  Roald Dahl

  House, Bed, Comfort

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.90, Penguin

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• We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.

  Carwyn Jones

  Being Me, Yeah, Members

  "After Voting For Brexit, Wales Weighs In On EU Business Uncertainty". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.

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• When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, West, 8 Mile

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• I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, School, Oxford

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• I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Knowing, Forever, Zorro

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• While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Writing, Errors, Factual

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• I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Party, College, Glasses

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

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• I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Home, Long, Festivals

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

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• I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!

  Jay Kay

  Moon, Years, Weather

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

  Sting

  Respect, Cheer, Two

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• When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.

  Horace Walpole

  Brother, Kings, Three

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• In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

  Norman Wisdom

  Theatre, Facts, November

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

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• I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

  Caitlin Moran

  Princess, Looks, Feminine

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Believe, Princess

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• In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.

  Julie Burchill

  Husband, Sick, Laid Back

  "Things I've never done before: My first time driving" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2008.

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• I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Home, Years, London

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

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• I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

  Alison Jackson

  Queens, Too Much, Fabulous

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• If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Sheep, Pigs, Scotland

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• He is the best passer of a ball in the world, and Real's style fits him. 
  (on David Beckham)

  Ryan Giggs

  Real, Style, Balls

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• Somebody like me - I am a member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, we've been at this for several years now. To have somebody like the Prince of Wales talk about something [like climate changes] elevates that conversation to a much higher level.

  Chris Barrie

  Military, Years, Climate

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I started singing because I come from Wales

  Bryn Terfel

  Singing

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• Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Whales, Used

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