#british

So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talents don’t weigh in the balance, I can always write haiku on Twitter. ↗

— Rosy Cole

#contemporary-poets #new-releases #poetry #quotes #rosy-cole

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#british #colonial #compromise #danger #film

I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative. ↗

— Jon Lord

#america #american #because #bit #british

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#british #follows #leads #merchant #where

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#british people #go #i #little #lot

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream. ↗

— David Miliband

#back #bring #british #cameron #conservative

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. ↗

— Robert Morley

#always #british #happy #long #natives

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#british #certainly #even #i #i am

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#british #clifford #coach #eventually #fantastic

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#british actors #deliberate #emotion #many #must