Quotes about british
british-actor gives goes good great headphones run terrific work
She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents. Albert Finney
british-actor stop
I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.
british-actor tells
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
british-actor start
You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.
british came chief editor later magazine three time understood
By the time I came to the States, I really understood how a magazine works. I came to 'Vogue' as creative director, and three years later I went back to London to be editor in chief of British 'Vogue.' Anna Wintour
british-comedian country cultures drama genuinely incidents life moments teaches
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. Michael Palin
british entertainment politics rock roll rose universal youth
The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.
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If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
british-novelist crew members talked
I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by. James D'arcy
british incredibly middle nor silver south spoon terribly
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents. Jude Law
british-actress quite
Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you. Diana Rigg
british cut dent expect falling further growth inflation interest modest monetary prompt prospects rate rise sluggish year
While the stronger-than-expected rise in British GDP put a further dent in the prospects of an interest rate cut in February, we still expect the combination of sluggish growth and falling inflation this year to prompt a modest loosening of monetary policy.
british-actor enjoy good
You are with a new set of people, you are in a new location, there is always something new about it. I still enjoy that. It's still good fun.
british-statesman mother silence
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli
british-musician picked
But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. Jim Capaldi
british-actor nobody poetry
But nobody can write poetry all the time. Peter Davison
british-actor coming constantly daunting dealing editor poetry reason simply terms understanding
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
british-actor produce programs terrible uniformity
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
british-actor poetry ways
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
british-actor forward found inspired pushed quite youth
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
british-actor culture past rise version
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
british-actor matters poetry
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
british-actor individual people reading
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
british-actor poetry
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
british-actor poet poets
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
british-actor poems proud reason whether written
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
british-actor poems present receive seem three written
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
british-actor contact difficult emotions people
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
british-actor poems reason writes
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
british-actor device enable invented people poetry remember
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
british-actor ease
I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. Michael Gambon
british-statesman character greater sure
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
british-statesman critical critics-and-criticism easier
It is easier to be critical than correct.