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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
Brian Eno

Music, House, Europe

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine

Person, Made, American

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
T. E. Lawrence

Hard, Honor, Escape

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
W. H. Auden

Different, Two, America

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
Loretta Lynn

History, Mountain, Kept

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Place, Keep, Room

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
John Cleese

Great, God, Problem

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
John Cleese

Country, Anyone, Press

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.
John Cleese

Small, America, Try

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Serious, Against, Charge

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader

Business, Today, Sex

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
Karl Lagerfeld

Health, Bad, Dangerous

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.
Bob Hope

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson

Working, Color, Difference

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
Jim Henson

Pretty, Big, Difficult

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Elizabeth I

Death, Hate, Wish

In England, your life is your life.
Eric Cantona

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
Eric Cantona

Football, Paradise, Arrive

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
Gene Simmons

Place, Thousands, Bands

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
Francesca Annis

Speak, Word, Moved

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
Francesca Annis

Everything, Why, Whether

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.
Shirley MacLaine

Time, Leaving, She

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.
David Cameron

Whole, United, Prime

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
Sting

Change, Learned, Class

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
Sting

Home, Weather, Last

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
Alan Rickman

Two, Off, Plane

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.
Sienna Miller

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
Russell Crowe

Move, Africa, Attack

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
Leon Trotsky

Nothing, Last, Quite

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
Minnie Driver

Love, Filmmaking, Ashamed

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