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England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.