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Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent. -- Eli Wallach
I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity. -- Emma Watson
I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working. -- Eric Fellner
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts. -- A. N. Wilson
It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city. -- Nandan Nilekani
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting. -- Hamish Bowles
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. -- John Major
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. -- Jim Gerlach
In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that. -- Richard Dawkins
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!' -- Damian Lewis
Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving. -- Graham Moore
I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show. -- Dick Van Dyke
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. -- Rupert Murdoch
We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally. -- Ann Macbeth
The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys. -- David Morrissey
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. -- Robert MacNeil
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you. -- Adam Oates
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of. -- Stockwell Day
The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable. -- Theodore Zeldin
Denmark as a country has always looked up to England. I've always felt that British actors are fantastic. There's a strong theatre tradition in your country, and that is reflected in TV and film as well. We've always thought that for crime series, you were the masters, and the general feeling the Danes have of British drama is that it's excellent. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so. -- John Graves Simcoe
I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British. -- Woody Allen
I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors. -- Dan Brown
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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