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It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.
Rob James-Collier / Actor
Being Gay
Gay
Hard
Edwardian
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I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.
Helena Bonham Carter / Actress
Hate
I Hate
Shock
Want
Edwardian
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
William Manchester / Author
History
Dresses
Preparation
Wonder
Awesome
Behold
Edwardian
Lady
Preparations
Viewing
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You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
Mary Steenburgen / Actress
Masculine
Always Anything Never
David
Edwardian
Always Never Anything
Lady
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I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.
Sandra Cisneros / Writer
Syntax
Translations
Story Books
Edwardian
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The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
Jason Alexander / Actor
Accepted
Emotional Life
Manners
Sake
Terrific
Edwardian
Stepped
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The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.
Mark Gatiss / Actor
Combination
Moon
Space Travel
Edwardian
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
Cameron Mackintosh / Theatrical Producer
Architect
Edwardian
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Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food.
Peter York / Author
Jobs
Advertising
Black
Mark
World
Brand
Edwardian
Industrial
Signs
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
Val Mcdermid / Crime Writer
Manchester
Ostentatious
Vernacular
Time Doing Big
Big House
Edwardian
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My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.
Christopher Plummer / Theatre Actor
Family
Romantic
Canada
Decided
Gates
Great Grandfather
Growing Up
Lost
Prime
Prime Minister
Rough
Streets
Upbringing
Very
Had
Bad
Find
Edwardian
Minister
Rather
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Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Ireland but also for the Scots and the Welsh - and for the English.
Linda Colley / Historian
Instance
Ireland
Victorian
Welsh
Activists
Edwardian
Round
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Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
Helena Bonham Carter / Actress
Features
Mean
Pale
People
Versatile
Victorian
Wish
Look I Am People
Always Look I Am
Doll
Edwardian
Journalists
Smaller
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
Dan Aykroyd / Comedian
Consciousness
Dentist
Grandfather
Great Grandfather
Invisible
Ontario
Survival
World
Interested
Edwardian
Paintings
Researcher
Sam
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WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
Anita Shreve / Writer
Travel
Innocence
Men And Women
Novel
Senses
Shattered
Life Death War
Bravely
Life War Death
Comforts
Edwardian
Entire
Generation
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By comparison, 'The Secret Agent' is not especially prescient about terrorism, certainly not technically. The Professor was a stock figure of Edwardian fiction, and his dreams of mass destruction were nothing ahead of their time. Many novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries involved plots far more deadly.
Tom Reiss / Author
Comparison
Destruction
Involved
Late
Mass
Mass Destruction
Secret
Secret Agent
Terrorism
Agent
Ahead
Centuries
Deadly
Edwardian
Technically
Figure
Novels
Plots
Professor
Stock
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My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
Philip Reeve / Author
Clothes
Color
Fiction
Nine
Plus
Reading
Science Fiction
Ten
Victorian
War Work Science
War Time Work
Edwardian
Encounter
Liking
Tends
Worlds
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