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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information. ↗


— Kate Adie


#always #believing #british #contact #gone

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of. ↗


— Jenny Agutter


#care #film #good #good relationship #herself

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing. ↗


— Jenny Agutter


#combination #directing #i #landis #like

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? ↗


— Francesca Annis


#class #england #everything #lower #middle

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life. ↗


— John James Audubon


#care #caught #charge #commanded #fever

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ↗


— Francis Bacon


#discoverers #ill #land #nothing #sea

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. ↗


— J. G. Ballard


#areas #because #came #emerging #england

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong. ↗


— Ed Balls


#bank #britain #civil #civil service #consensus

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it. ↗


— Neil Abercrombie


#because #ceded #collecting #good #land

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff. ↗


— Neil Abercrombie


#bank #everybody #going #got #interested






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