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"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
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"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."

"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."

"It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober."

"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."

"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."

"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."

"In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm."

"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."
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