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Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.
Gina Bellman
Divide
Between
New
New Media
Cultural
Surprisingly
American
Regarding
Media
Actor
British
Associated
British Actors
I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
Giorgio Moroder
Like
Am
Certainly
Even
British
I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.
Glynis Johns
Good
Seen
Picture
Would
Sooner
Pictures
Majority
Than
American
Play
British
The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain's underlying economic performance.
Gordon Brown
Future
Wise
Management
Long
Shifting
Boom
Must
Only
Economic
Firm
Performance
Long-Term
Term
Economy
Underlying
Built
Bedrock
Prudent
Sands
Bust
Foundations
Raise
Britain
British
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.
Gordon Sinclair
Morning
Took
States
Point
Pounding
Exchanges
French
Known
Another
Dollar
West
West Point
German
Germany
Hitting
Lowest
United
Ever
United States
British
After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.
Gore Vidal
World
Money
Three
Power
Revolution
Markets
London
Paris
Colonial
Primacy
Generations
Maintained
Empire
French
Well
French Revolution
Shifted
Modern
After
Old-Fashioned
Based
British
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
Grace Jones
You
Church
Think
Dancing
Pentecostal
Proper
Hymns
Up
Very
Quiet
Jamaica
Fiery
Might
Growing
Growing Up
Fundamental
Thing
British
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.
Graeme Murphy
Entertainment
Think
Our
Pretty
Leads
Days
Were
Mean
Early
British
Early Days
Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.
Graham Coxon
Me
Wave
Tell
Kind
Able
Part
Almost
New
Like
Mission
Always
Were
Difference
Being
Arty
Burma
British
The first mention of a 'ranger' is as early as 1622, during the 1622 Powhatan rebellion, a near-successful effort to drive the British out of what is now Virginia.
Greg Grandin
Rebellion
Drive
First
Virginia
Ranger
Out
Mention
Effort
Now
Early
British
The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, attacked a number of friendly Shawnee towns along the Mad River.
Greg Grandin
Power
Revolution
Ranger
Daniel
Mad
Attacked
River
Instance
Opened
Along
Removal
Towns
Friendly
American
After
American Revolution
Included
Including
Units
Number
British
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.
Greg Norman
Good
Tired
Game
Control
British Open
Back
Pretty
Pretty Good
Week
Open
Since
Obviously
Felt
Priority
Surgery
Coming
Did
Senior
Golf
Which
Golf Game
Successfully
Each
Event
Each Week
Second
British
I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that's enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.
Greg Rutherford
Hope
Champion
People
World
Enough
Athlete
Accept
Am
Commonwealth
European
Now
Olympic
British
I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or, really, any form of music. Songs travel, and people take them into their lives in all different kinds of unpredictable and really untraceable ways.
Greil Marcus
Music
Travel
People
Different Kinds
Ways
Kinds
Unpredictable
Take
Songs
Division
Between
Know
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
South
American
Roll
Any
Different
Form
Sensibilities
Them
Asian
Really
European
Lives
British
Sometimes you can't fight change, because you're a part of it, and I feel that in the context of these films that are happening now, there is a kind of change coming in terms of how history is represented on film, and the African, and the African-American and British African experience.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
History
You
Change
Fight
Experience
Sometimes
Films
Kind
Part
Feel
Terms
Because
How
Context
Coming
African
African-American
Happening
Film
Now
British
It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.
Gurinder Chadha
Culture
World
Films
Window
About
Generate
Simply
Well
Box
Box Office
Revenue
Provide
Office
Britain
British
I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.
Gurinder Chadha
Love
Heart
Innocent
Sweet
Sleeve
Everything
Wears
Head
Openness
Sort
Still
Aspire
Film
British
'Viceroy' is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective.
Gurinder Chadha
Director
Perspective
Made
Power
First
India
Indian
About
Transfer
Film
Britain
British
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
Gustav Stresemann
Old
Insist
Despite
Faults
Recognize
Worthiness
Must
Shape
Part
Were
Subject
Greatness
Germans
Germany
Just
Loves
England
Who
Helped
Her
Present-Day
British
When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.
Hamish Bowles
School
Meet
Entered
High
London
Magazine
High School
About
Vogue
Mention
Talent
Annual
Wrote
Contest
Got
Editors
Up
Special
British
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold MacMillan
Government
Action
Down
Brought
Determined
Should
Two
British
British Government
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Harold Pinter
Life
Politics
Theatre
Sphere
Involved
Force
Non-Political
Within
Tradition
Intellectual
Intellectual Life
Mocking
Gets
Any
Arts
British
Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.
Harry Johnston
Result
Colony
Adventurous
Also
Another
Came
North
North America
America
Being
James
Nova
Nova Scotia
Reign
British
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
Harry Lloyd
Great
Age
Theatre
Stars
Both
Very
Bunch
Much
Who
Whole
Film
Actor
Film Stars
British
British Actors
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.
Hayley Atwell
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Met
Sense
Think
Brits
Bit
Bits
Though
Darker
Some
Seem
Adopted
Guys
More
Tend
Open
Well
Dry
Than
American
Who
Forward
British
I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
Heather Brooke
Myself
British Press
Press
Out
Carving
Always
Fringe
Establishment
Worked
Niche
British
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