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As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors the Soviets and, before them, the British.

Quote by Mohammed Omar about nation, defeat, hell, future, fire, fire brigade, god

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

Quote by Nick Park about opinion, charm, americans

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.

Quote by Nick Park about commerce, prison, americans, people

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

Quote by Simon Pegg about americans

But I think there's plenty of British comedy that Americans have never seen that they would like but sometimes things just get through.

Quote by Simon Pegg about comedy, americans, things

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Quote by Simon Pegg about humor, common sense, sense, americans, things

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Quote by Simon Pegg about humor, common sense, sense, self-control, americans

It's the very British thing of reserve and keeping everything shut in, that's what people do with their emotions, shut the curtains on them.

Quote by Simon Pegg about emotions, things, people

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel and I need to represent it well.

Quote by Julie Andrews about country, proudness, need

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer...

Quote by William Golding about opinion, old, vice, americans, beauty, character, age, olderness, people