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Tag Name "British" (1060)

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The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
Alexis Korner
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Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
Alexander Woollcott
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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
William Alexander
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It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
Alexander Lebedev
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I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.
Naomi Watts
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Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
Alex Kingston
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The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.
Geoffrey Howe
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
William Falconer
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
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I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.
Maureen Johnson
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The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
Joss Stone
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It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
William Monahan
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What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.
Kevin Gutzman
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The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.
Michael Gove
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It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.
William Randolph Hearst
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British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.
William Randolph Hearst
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The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
Alasdair MacIntyre
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Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.
Alan Moore
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Set we forward let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.
William Shakespeare
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Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.
Gerald Kaufman
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For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
Imelda Marcos
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
Al Alvarez
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London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.
Hussein Chalayan
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