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Related It's a great experience to work with a lot of young people. Some of those British accents are pretty... CAROL VARNEY STEPHANIE PERKINS NICK PARK I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfri... AUSTIN BUTLER NICK PARK I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the langu... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN JOHN OLIVER VIOLA DAVIS NELSON MANDELA If we have told lies you have told half lies. A man who tells lies merely hides the truth, but a man... THE BRITISH CONSUL. A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki... A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou... ALAN BRADLEY The Guardian and the British Embassy are doing their work. They've got a lot of people on the ground... JOE CARROLL And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about ... HERBIE HANCOCK I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the ... JAMIE BAMBER Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastr... GEORGE OSBORNE The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little ... COLIN MOCHRIE American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. SIMON PEGG DOMINIC PURCELL GEOFF MULGAN THERESA MAY You know, if some of these folks have been living back to that April night in 1775 when Paul Revere ... ZELL MILLER Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patt... LINDA CHAVEZ These men are not appreciated. They went through a lot. If we had lost the (Revolutionary) war, thes... THOMAS FLEMING I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quit... RYAN CARTWRIGHT Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the I... CONAN O'BRIEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES EMMANUEL MACRON There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that... DANA ALLIN Kevin would have to wait at least six months to get a British title shot but if he beats Okine it wi... DAVID BARNES I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. ANDREW ELDRITCH I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. GLYNIS JOHNS RACHEL MCADAMS GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (He) was a Russian, born in Latvia, who was an actor, singer, gangster and ran a whole network of ag... BERNARD WASSERSTEIN But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way th... RONNIE SPECTOR ORLANDO BLOOM DAVID SOUL ADAM SAVAGE To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives h... DAVID VIDECETTE BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at sch... NASIM PEDRAD Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist. VINCENT TAN 'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on ... ROSE GEORGE I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on... NICK CLEGG NATALIE MASSENET This year we are basically going to be doing some Caribbean-hopping. This first show is going to fea... MICHELLE MINUS The English and, more latterly, the British, have the habit of acquiring their institutions by chanc... LORD HAILSHAM The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and ... JOHN CLEESE Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its ... ROBERT TROUT JOHN OLIVER DAVID CRYSTAL CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want t... KEVIN MCKIDD ELLIOTT ABRAMS MARTIN MCGUINNESS More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's o... CAROL VORDERMAN BRENDA BLETHYN BRENDA BLETHYN What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was tr... YAHYA JAMMEH When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would... ANTHONY MINGHELLA There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on ... DENIS KEARNEY RICHARD C. ARMITAGE In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it... TOM PAULIN RICK ATKINSON It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British... PAUL HARRIS There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not.... JONATHAN POWELL GEORGE BORROW We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. NICHOLAS LEA As a rule, Michael Balcon was at great pains to ensure Ealing remained very British. There was no po... DOUGLAS SLOCOMBE NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy. CALLAN MCAULIFFE Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an A... TANIT PHOENIX British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences ar... ADAM RAYNER GEORGE MIKES This British guy makes a lot of good points. LAWRENCE KORB Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER HAROLD PINTER When the wall came down in Berlin, the British had the BBC, and the American station was basically i... GARY SMITH Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when ... BERNARD LEVIN OWEN PATERSON IAN MCKELLEN What (British Air) has said is their agenda mustn't (be altered), ... British Airways has to get out... MICHAEL COLEMAN I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers. EHUD OLMERT JOSEPH J. ELLIS British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig of... MEGAN BOONE This is the first recent event in an Arab country which focuses on perspectives of British Muslims i... CLAIRE HALPRINE I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were... ALFRED MOLINA ISABELLA BIRD GERRY ADAMS There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't ev... SIMON PEGG I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I w... CALLAN MCAULIFFE YAEL STONE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON WILL SELF Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ba... ADAM OATES A.E. SAMAAN The London attack is one of the attacks that al Qaeda ... had the honor of carrying out against ... ... AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI The London attack is one of the attacks that al Qaeda ... had the honour of carrying out against ...... AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when ... BERNARD LEVIN
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American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were th... 
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very... 
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Certain American Progressives and British Fabian Socialists are very lucky that Adolf Hitler was a p... 
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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. 