“I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."” WritingYearsSaidShowsMy OwnWalksComedySceneTenConversationEnglandLondonPerformingCheerAuditionsJimmyChattingComedy ShowsSpringboards Author:Shelley Long
“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!” PeopleShouldStillsTwoMightRunningLinesAnimalHalfUnited StatesStreetsEventsConversationNormalAmbitionEnglandFortuneSurpriseClimateSizeExtremesAccidentsDrawingFranceHolocaustElephantsExaggerationCartsSurprise MeTrams Author:Elinor Glyn
“English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.” MightInterestConversationTraditionEnglandTablesDinnerStrictTopicsDinner TableBanalityAdherence Author:Elspeth Huxley
“What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.” YearsMindIdeasWantedSecretHappenedReturnConversationProjectsEnglandOriginalsLondonTomsInvitedChordsAdventurerHardyOriginal Ideas Author:Steven Knight
“Sometimes, with leaders, the stakes are very high indeed. Churchill, in WWII, for example, could not afford to utter publicly his concerns about England's ability to survive Hitler's onslaught. He thought about them, but the leadership conversation sometimes needs to inspire, not voice doubt.” NeedsSometimesVoiceAbilityLeaderDoubtExampleInspireConversationConcernEnglandStakesWwii Author:Nick Morgan
“In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.” PeopleShowsCoursesConversationEnglandGreekLatinShowing OffUneducatedEducated And Uneducated Book:How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide Source: How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide
“Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.” HouseWhiteWindFlowerQuietMoonConversationSpringEnglandBlueColourShockBeatenPurpleNew EnglandDesertedStaggeringPuffLilac Author:Amy Lowell