Quotes about british
british-musician definitely last looking rather thom voices
On the last two records, Thom was definitely looking for other instruments to give him voices rather than have his own voice at the front. Colin Greenwood
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On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
british-scientist pivotal
My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career. Paul Nurse
british-actor gradually happened
And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed. Patrick Macnee
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I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things. Peter Jackson
british-actor consider noise
When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind. Peter Mayhew
british-actor main regular
I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
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We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well. Jackie Stewart
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We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.
british-novelist
We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model. Mitchell Reiss
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We have always been strongly opposed to anything that would threaten the separate identities of the British football associations and that has not and will not change. The present set-up has been around, in our case, since 1873 and we have separate privileges within FIFA and UEFA. From a football perspective, that is more important than participation in an Olympic Games. David Taylor
british guidance massively reduced sequence
We have already had a sequence of downgrades from British Airways, Lufthansa has reduced its guidance once, and KLM has massively reduced its guidance,
british jets
We have two British Airways jets parked on our runway.
british company good necessary strong survive tough
We can survive this, British Airways is a strong company, and will come through this in good shape, but we have to take the necessary tough measures.
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In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker. Rory Stewart
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class. Orlando Bloom
british-actor played seems
It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor. Patrick Troughton
british-actor possibilities totally
I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
british-musician foster great museum seeing serious
Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?
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If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.
british either love quite
Well, Gibraltar is a place which you either love or hate. I quite like it. It's a rock, that is essentially what it is. It's a British colony. Nigel Short
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You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face.
british-actress
Really, in a way, I took over the male role. Honor Blackman
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In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.
british-actress catherine female viewers
Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.
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Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf. Henry Beard
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We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. Rory Bremner
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Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before Aug 2 (the day in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait) and told the British as well... that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein
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My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon.
british-actor responsibility screen
My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater. Richard Wilson
british-author unless
My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother? Jackie Collins
british-scientist parents physician preferred surgeon understanding
My parents would have preferred me to become a surgeon or a physician but were most understanding of the ambitions of their son. Sydney Brenner