“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.” WorldTryingFirstsWarBigsNextEventsMaterialsEnglandHistoricalMusicalStrikesWar Of The WorldsDocumentariesFirst World WarHistorical Events Author:Trevor Nunn
“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
“I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.” NeedsVoiceWatchesEventsEnglandPressesDuesOlympicsRoyalFoulDazzlingFree PressJingoism Author:Steven Morrissey
“If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.” IfsChildrenBookUseBigsReadingHouseParentDifferencesWhiteStepsEventsHollywoodEnglandNflPoundsNbaWhite HouseBookstoresChildren Reading Author:James Patterson
“None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.” PersonsCharacterStoriesCitiesImagineEventsLimitsEnglandTownsAncientNobleUnlikelyOxford Book:The Moving Toyshop Source: The Moving Toyshop
“[Polythene Pam] was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.” MenWritingFirstsLittlesLongSaidWantedRememberGirlSexMemoriesAnswersDealsEventsMetsDrugEnglandBagsApartmentExposureJerseyTriggersDressed UpGinsbergKilts Author:John Lennon