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You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that. Matt Robinson
Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I. Harry Johnston
Victoria Beckham quote: "I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British."
I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British. Victoria Beckham
Henry James quote: "However British you may be, I am more British still."
However British you may be, I am more British still. Henry James
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available. Michael Baden
A British traveler remarked, 'There are [fashions in Guatemala] which it would require more than common charity to speak of with respect...'" FILL IN YOUR OWN GRIPES! ;-) Paul Theroux
She is the British warm that protects his stooping shoulders, and the wintering sparrow he holds inside his hands. She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true, and his lithe Parisian daughter of joy, beneath the eternal mirror, forswearing perfumes, capeskin to the armpits, all that is too easy, for his impoverishment and more worthy love Thomas Pynchon
Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher? Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on? Calvin Trillin
Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879? June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect." Forster was gay, but this fact was not made public during his lifetime. His posthumously... E. M. Forster
Meg Cabot quote: "it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never..."
...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH. Meg Cabot
In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language. William Golding
I was fifteen when I left school. And what did I get to show for my ten years in the British education system? A piece of paper which said: John Osbourne attended Birchfield Road Secondary Modern. Signed, Mr Oldham (Headmaster)That was f**king it. Not a single qualification. Nothing. I had two career choices: manual labour or manual labour. Ozzy Osbourne
Alan Rickman quote: "Why don't I like you?"Because you think I'm an asshole, and..."
Why don't I like you?"Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not. Alan Rickman
Anne Rice quote: "Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of..."
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely. Anne Rice
Dan Brown quote: "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone..."
Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors. Dan Brown

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