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"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."
Diane Cilento
"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."
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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."
Ben Kingsley
"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."
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"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."
James Mansfield
"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."
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"And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed."
David Thewlis
"And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed."
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"In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really."
Parminder Nagra
"In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really."
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"In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever."
Simon Pegg
"In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever."
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"We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England."
Phil Collen
"We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England."
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"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."
Uta Hagen
"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."
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"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood."
Bob Hope
"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood."
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"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."
Joseph Hume
"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."
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"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."
Johnny Winter
"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."
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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
"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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"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."
Mark Roberts
"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."
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"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
Charles Keating
"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
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"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."
Colin Firth
"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."
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"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."
Joseph Hume
"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."
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"I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason."
Claire Forlani
"I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason."
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"I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold."
Alison Moyet
"I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold."
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"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
Lillie Langtry
"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
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"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
Thurston Moore
"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
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"We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester."
Dave Mason
"We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester."
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"My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England."
David Prowse
"My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England."
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"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."
Paul Harris
"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."
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"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."
Derek Jacobi
"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."
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"Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England."
Davy Jones
"Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England."
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"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."
Russell Crowe
"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."
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"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."
Charles Lyell
"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."
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"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."
Joan Bennett
"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."
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"It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober."
William Connor Magee
"It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober."
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"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."
Lillie Langtry
"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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"I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval."
Jeff Beck
"I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval."
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"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."
Evan Thomas
"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."
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"The weather in England can really darken your spirits."
Claire Forlani
"The weather in England can really darken your spirits."
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"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."
Alan Rickman
"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."
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"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."
Ray Davies
"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."
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"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses."
Davy Jones
"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses."
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"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England."
Patti Smith
"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England."
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"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
Jim Henson
"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
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"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."
W. Somerset Maugham
"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."
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"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."
Emo Philips
"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."
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"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."
George Takei
"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."
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"Then my own TV chat show in England in 1989."
Suzi Quatro
"Then my own TV chat show in England in 1989."
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"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
Simon Newcomb
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
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"I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet."
Roger Andrew Taylor
"I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet."
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