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When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.
When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!
I grew up a little bit in Germany and then in Switzerland, then in France, the United States and in England, and so it is weird.
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'
I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.
I've got Spanish grandparents and I've got a connection with Spain. But I consider myself English and I want to play for England.
The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)
He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent. (on David Beckham)
I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England. She and the Pope are the ultimate clients.
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.
Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.
In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.
My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.
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.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
No more watching that show Small England or whatever it's called where those two idiots dress up as 'laydees'. It's a bad influence.
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.
I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits.
That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.
Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.
I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.
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.
I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
I'm curious to see what happens in England because in all this madness I think I can always go home to England and it'll all turn off.
My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me it is like a mythical place.
I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.
I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.