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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Address Another Argue Bell Both Clock Combination Doubt England English English People Irony Joy Music Nevertheless No Doubt Peculiar People Piece Sadness Sentimental Typical Very Which Would

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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

~Aaron Johnson

Topics: Accent America Anyone Ask Beatles Because England English English People Ever Funny Give Go Just Know Knows Like People Really Songs Sound Try Would You

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One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but also their ability to send English people outside. So they're very brain circulation-oriented, and I do hope, even with Brexit, they will keep this asset they have.

~Alain Dehaze

Topics: Ability Also Asset Attract Brain Brexit English English People Even Highly Hope Keep Outside Over People Places Send Strengths Talented Talented People Very Will

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The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Cards Celebrity Class Code Credit Credit Cards Disenchantment Dreams England English English People Every Good Grandparents Granted Had Happy Informs Jobs Never Part People Poverty Service Story Take Whose Wins Working Working Class

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My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

~Andy Murray

Topics: English English People Fitness Friends People Problem Some Trainer

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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Am Baseball Cap English English People Entitled Genetically Look Most People Wear Whereas Wrong I Am I Can

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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

~Carl Sandburg

Topics: Curious Dead English English People Few Living Now Only People Remember Spoken Strange Thousand Thousand Years Words Years Years Ago I Can

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English people are always surprised I'm English.

~Charlie Hunnam

Topics: Always English English People People Surprised

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Dickens belongs to the English people.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Belongs Dickens English English People People

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The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

~Colin Firth

Topics: Able Country Denying English English People Exist Far Lot More People Philistine Shakespeare Spoken Than Them Think Understand Who Word Would

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