Quotes by British authors

Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for - they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.

Glenn Murray

English former soccer player

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen

English novelist

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

Mark Millar

Comic book writer

I can't really walk down the street as Brian Badonde without someone going, 'Bwark.'

Kayvan Novak

British actor

Nicki Minaj thanked me on the first mixtape that she put out. She shouted me out, said thank you for allowing her to borrow my English accent sometimes. And honestly, a lot of people have told me that I've influenced them.

Monie Love

British rapper

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

Richard K. Morgan

British author

I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?

Ben Miller

Actor

A man can be as sexy as he wants to be.

Engelbert Humperdinck

British singer

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

Patrick Ness

American-British author

For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

Lloyd Dorfman

British entrepreneur

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

Richard Dawkins

British evolutionary biologist

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

Emily Blunt

British actress

I was shaped by my mistakes.

Janice Dickinson

One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

Julie Walters

Actress

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

Richard E. Grant

Swazi actor

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

Paul Oakenfold

English record producer

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Harold Pinter

British playwright

The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.

Michael Ashcroft

British-Belizean businessman

Since I can remember, it had been my dream to be a Hollywood star.

Keeley Hazell

English model

When countries are in crisis Britain leads the international response.

Penny Mordaunt

Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom

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