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So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

I've always felt like I was going to win a British Open at St. Andrews. That place is suited for me.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.

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

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

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

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

I think there is racism at the heart of British policy and has been both in Labour and Conservative times.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

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