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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.

~Ed Weeks

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When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!

~Ed Weeks

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My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.

~Ed Weeks

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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

~Eddie Redmayne

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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.

~Eden Hazard

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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

~Edie Campbell

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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.

~Edmund Morgan

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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

~Edmund Morgan

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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

~Edmund Morgan

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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.

~Edmund Morgan

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