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• One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.

  Owen Paterson

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• It’s very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

  David Hockney

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

  Leonard Slatkin

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• If my British film career was a girl, then I’d been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

  Rufus Sewell

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• The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

  Quentin Crisp

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

  David Sedaris

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• You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth – she’s Elizabeth the Second. There’s only one Imelda.

  Imelda Marcos

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• At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn’t want to go in the hole on the back nine.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

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• I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain’s pick. I made the effort to go over there.

  Payne Stewart

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• I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

  Paul Bettany

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

  Frank Carson

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• I’m a British intern going in. I’m hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she’s about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

  Parminder Nagra

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• I’m actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

  Parminder Nagra

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• All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

  Paris Hilton

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• I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  Paddy Ashdown

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• In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

  Gerry Adams

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

  Gerry Adams

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• A British declaration be taken against Martinez for ‘capturing and robbing us.

  George Vancouver

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• I don’t think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

  Tom Paulin

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

   

  George Osborne

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