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I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper... it's a disaster.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Am Bleed Board Bristol Cartoonist Curling Disaster Drafting Humidity Love Minute New New York Nightmare Off Only Paper Pens Put Really Say Studio Summer Sweating Tape Them Up York

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You know you've become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.

~Alexa Chung

Topics: Become Brat Bristol Know Like Paris Room You

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I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.

~Ben Elliot

Topics: Always Assumed Bristol Commons Country Economics Go House House Of Commons Later Left Love Might Organisation People Politics Represent Seat Studied Well West

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Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

~Beth Gibbons

Topics: Bristol Get One Thing Sound Straight Thing

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I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

~Brian Blessed

Topics: Amateur Assistant Because Before Bristol Doing Dreaming Family Father Getting Got Had Injured Leave Military Military Service Mines Old Scholarship School Service Support Theatre Then Undertaker While

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The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

~Carol Vorderman

Topics: After Around Bristol Days Home Jeans Kids Make-Up Me Most Real Running Shopping Spend Studio Tv T-Shirt

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This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Actually All My Life Amazed Bristol British Came City Edinburgh Foolish Had Just Life Like Living Might My Life Nearly Really Sound South Spent I Came

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For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: America Biggest Bristol Britain Centuries Family Father Huge Interior Lived Port River Through Trade Which

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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

~Fergus Henderson

Topics: Any Anyone Bristol Builds Chap Further Gets Go Good He Kingdom Must Railway Supper Then Think Who Would I Think

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Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay's cool, shallow waters before charging up nearby streams to spawn and create another generation of wild salmon.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Alaska Another Bay Before Bristol Charging Cool Create Every Generation Linger Millions Nearby Pristine Return Salmon Shallow Shores Spawn Streams Tens Tens Of Millions Up Waters Wild Year

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