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I love 'Splash!' and 'Take Me Out.' Not that I'd ever do 'Splash!' It's the parading on British TV in a swimming costume I couldn't handle.

Quotes by Maxine Peake

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

Quotes by Maureen Johnson

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

Quotes by Matthew Macfadyen

What a privilege and honour it has been to be part of seven years of magic in a tent - 'The Great British Bake Off.'

Quotes by Mary Berry

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Quotes by Martin McGuinness

I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment.

Quotes by Martin McGuinness

One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention.

Quotes by Martin Jacques

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Quotes by Martin Fleischmann

The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.

Quotes by Marsha Blackburn

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

Quotes by Mark Romanek

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

Quotes by Marine Le Pen

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

Quotes by Mariella Frostrup

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

Quotes by Marianne Jean-Baptiste

It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'

Quotes by Margarita Simonyan

One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.

Quotes by Marcy Kaptur

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

Quotes by Maajid Nawaz

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

Quotes by Maajid Nawaz

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

Quotes by Lynn Redgrave

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

Quotes by Lynn Davies

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

Quotes by Lucy Powell

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

Quotes by Louis Theroux

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

Quotes by Lord Mountbatten

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

Quotes by Linton Kwesi Johnson

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

Quotes by Linda Chavez

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire, because this was exactly what their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic also did.

Quotes by Linda Colley

The immediate impact of British imperial free-trading was often the collapse of local indigenous industries which were in no position to compete, and a consequent destruction of livelihoods and communities.

Quotes by Linda Colley

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

Quotes by Linda Colley

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.

Quotes by Linda Colley

Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.

Quotes by Linda Colley

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.

Quotes by Linda Colley

Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.

Quotes by Linda Evangelista

Before British title fights, I've played football on a Saturday before; it's silly as it is.

Quotes by Liam Smith

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Quotes by Lee Child

MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.

Quotes by Layla Moran

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

Quotes by Laurel Van Ness

The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the 'narrow-minded', 'intolerant' Boers.

Quotes by Kwasi Kwarteng

There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.

Quotes by Kwasi Kwarteng

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

Quotes by Kristin Scott Thomas

The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.

Quotes by Kevin Macdonald

I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

Quotes by Kathryn Harrison

In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.

Quotes by Katharine Viner

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Quotes by Karel Reisz

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

Quotes by Julian Fellowes

I have a British and an American passport.

Quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

Quotes by Joseph Hume

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

Quotes by Joseph Jacobs

I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.

Quotes by Jonathan Krisel

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

Quotes by Jonathan Krisel

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Quotes by John Scarlett

British people do not like being bossed around.

Quotes by John Redwood

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

Quotes by John Oliver

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

Quotes by John Mahoney

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

Quotes by John Lahr

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

Quotes by John Eisenhower

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

Quotes by John Clifford

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

Quotes by John Boyd Orr

My dad came from Trinidad to Jamaica when he was 19. He had to go to Jamaica to join the British regiment, where it was based. After Sandhurst, he returned to the Caribbean as a junior lieutenant, based in Jamaica. He met my mum and became a Jamaican citizen.

Quotes by John Barnes

There is this big yawning gap in the middle of British politics, the Conservative and Labour parties have gone to the edges. In this divided, polarised world, the pragmatic centre ground is a bit unloved.

Quotes by Jo Swinson

During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.

Quotes by Jim Pattison

I've heard Jerry do mini concerts while driving, especially when the music of The Beatles or a handful of other 'British Invasion' bands aired. Hearing Jerry Lawler sing with a British accent is quite an experience.

Quotes by Jim Ross

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

Quotes by Jim Gerlach

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.

Quotes by Jeremy Kyle

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

Quotes by Jean-Jacques Annaud

I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.

Quotes by Jean-Marc Vallee

I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

Quotes by Jason Aaron

British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.

Quotes by Jamie Bamber

The great British public is renowned throughout the world for its sense of humour.

Quotes by James William Middleton

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

Quotes by James Purefoy

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

Quotes by James Earl Jones

My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

Quotes by Jahangir Khan

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

Quotes by Ivor Novello

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Quotes by Ivor Novello

I defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'

Quotes by Ioan Gruffudd

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

Quotes by Ian Hislop

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

Quotes by I. King Jordan

Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

Quotes by Howard Jacobson

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

Quotes by Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

Quotes by Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

Quotes by Heather Brooke

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.

Quotes by Harry Johnston

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Quotes by Harold MacMillan

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Quotes by Graham Chapman

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

Quotes by Gordon Sinclair

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

Quotes by Giorgio Moroder

British electoral law forbids different campaign organisations acting in concert unless they have a shared cap on spending.

Quotes by Gina Miller

British democratic values are embedded in the primacy of parliament.

Quotes by Gina Miller

Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.

Quotes by Gina Bellman

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

Quotes by Giles Foden

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Quotes by Gerry Adams

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

Quotes by Gerry Adams

I do, I love to mock stuff. I am a British person.

Quotes by Georgia King

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

Quotes by George Vancouver

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

Quotes by George Osborne

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

Quotes by George Galloway

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

Quotes by George Galloway

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Quotes by George Borrow

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

Quotes by George A. Moore

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

Quotes by George A. Romero

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