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I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old.

~Derek Hough

Topics: England Fast Grew Moved Old Really Up Years

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It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: Big Doing England Expensive Getting More More And More Outside Particularly Seller Television Very Well

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I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.

~Derek Kilmer

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When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.

~Derek Walcott

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When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Any Apart British Citizen Citizenship College Dickens Empire England Felt Heritage Inheritance Just Literature Much One Of The Things Read Schoolboy Scott Shakespeare Synonymous Taught Things

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I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.

~Derek Walcott

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I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

~Derek Walcott

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I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

~Derek Walcott

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My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

~Desmond Llewelyn

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I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

~Diane Cilento

Topics: After Australia Commuting England Had Knew Less More More Or Less Place Pretty Sort Stupid Two Wanted Which Years

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