Neal Ascherson Quotes
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I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
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Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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The eyeball itself is fine. There's damage to the surrounding areas, but they weren't able to report if there is serious damage. I don't know what the time frame is for him to play again. I would bet there is significant swelling.
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There are lots of beautiful areas in England, and I am lucky enough to live in a stunning part of a very beautiful area.
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Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!
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I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.
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As long as there's not permanent damage to our energy infrastructure, the effects on the overall economy should be fairly modest.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.
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I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.
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I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play.
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The final withdrawal of the Roman army, some fifty years later, left England completely undefended and the population unprotected. Four centuries of occupation, during which citizens and slaves alike were forbidden even to carry arms and all weapons and military equipment were in the hands of the army, had left a population unaccustomed to warfare. That is not to say that the population was necessarily completely defenceless. Everyone must have seen this coming, and there were unknown numbers of retired veterans living in the towns and countryside. There may even have been remnants of a command structure at York and around Hadrian’s Wall. The wall was not breached by the Picts, who must, therefore, have taken to the sea to attack the North Sea coasts in the great rising of 367. There were already Germanic settlements in eastern England based on former auxiliary units of the Roman army.
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When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be.
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
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I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.
