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England Quotes


"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."


"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."


"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."


"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."


"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."


"We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England."


"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."


"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."


"I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason."


"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."



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


"My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England."


"Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up."


"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."


"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."


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



"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."


"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."



"I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet."


"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."



"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."


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


"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."


"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 was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."



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


"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."


"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."



"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."


"My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself."
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