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You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!


Josh Hartnett


#accent #attracted #badly #behave #british

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#british #came #colonial #communities #correspondents

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.


Luke Ford


#british #history #i #kind #loved

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.


Michael King


#britain #british #child #coherence #commonwealth

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.


Emma Thompson


#firemen #generally #gorgeous #known #loveliness

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


#bar #been #blues #british #emotional

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.


James Buchan


#awash #been #british #consequences #consular

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.


Michael Caine


#always #awareness #british #cold #cry

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.


Michael Caine


#accent #always #american #american cinema #any

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.


Michael Caine


#being #best #british #drunk #playing






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