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 was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.
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I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.
