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When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.

~Alan Furst

Topics: About Asked British Get Graham Kind Like Male Novelists Sentences Tend White Write

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I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

~Alan Hansen

Topics: Boy British Career Concentrating Football Golf Left Only Played School Scottish Started Teams

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The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

~Alan Lomax

Topics: After Ballads Became Become Blues British Came Commentary Form Hand Human Human Species Kind Main Musical New New Kind Out Satire Song Species Them Which Whole

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Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Bit British Comics Everything Greatly Improved Jim Like Mindset Outset Prevailing Progressive Psychedelic Radical Right Thought Were Would

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I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells' stories are potentially apocalyptic in some sense or another.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Always Another Been British Fiction Mean Most Potentially Science Science Fiction Sense Side Some Stories Think I Think

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Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

~Alex Kingston

Topics: British Cynicism Marvelous Patronizing Then Times

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Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.

~Alex Kingston

Topics: American British Catherine Dr Driver English Even Every Every Time Know Most People Reminded Shown Time Welsh

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I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for 'The Independent' newspaper in England, and now I write features for 'British Vogue.'

~Alexa Chung

Topics: Along Bit British Column Did England Features Independent Line Newspaper Now Somewhere Started Tv Vogue Write Writing I Write

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I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.

~Alexa Chung

Topics: Admire American American Women Because Being Bit British Eccentric Girl Good Lean Little Look Maybe Messy More Putting Really Sophisticated Together Toward Undone Women

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Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

~Alexa Chung

Topics: Arrogant Because Being British Looking Me Nothing Paranoid People Really Think Want

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