Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.
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.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.
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.
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.
I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.
We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.
I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
The weather in England can really darken your spirits.
They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.
