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“I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.”

Years Home Months Six England My Time Divides Six Months Arizona

Author:Terri Windling

“I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.”

Littles Done Shows Kids Wanted Lasts Left Comedy College Months Six Singing England University I Realized Quitting Comedian Opera Six Months Little Kid I Quit

Author:Jim Jefferies

“It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.”

Years Firsts Believe Mean Home Order I Believe Lord Hero Comfort Six England Absence Ships Related Unlimited Toasts Dukes Inns Wellington Dover

Book:A Taste of the Sun

Source: A Taste of the Sun

“There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.”

Kind Different Hours Four Six Spring Hundred England Twenties Weather Variety Different Kinds New England Sumptuous

Author:Mark Twain

“I love England. In fact, they're getting to know me so well at Heathrow Immigration that this time I was able to completely bypass the six months rabies quarantine.”

Knows Wells Facts Able Months Six England Immigration Know Me Six Months Quarantine Bypass Rabies

Author:Emo Philips

“Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.”

Years Firsts Wells Born Six England Scotland Newcastle

Author:Mark Knopfler

“In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.”

Want Stills Able Nations Easy Chance Week Couple Six Seasons England March Retired Injured Rugby February Skiing Playing Rugby Gloucester

Author:Mike Tindall

“Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.”

Sides Watches Saws Six India England Soldier Evening Clock Borders March Display Documentaries Pakistan Identical Peacock India And Pakistan Patrolling

Author:Matthea Harvey

“The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mean Reason Done Lasts America Film Careers Nice Middle Television Ocean Six England Theater Prepared Seven Radio Seven Years Really Nice

Author:Rufus Sewell

“The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. So you don't have to wait for a letter to get to England in six weeks, you have almost instant communication. That was an enormous shift.”

“England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.”

Littles Wife Cold Kings Six England Legs Kingdoms Fats Remembered Chickens Fists Rebellious King Henry

Book:In the Garden of Iden

Source: In the Garden of Iden

“After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.”

Two Bigs Asks Parent Mom Dad Battle Six England Died Court Lawyer Grandparent Sadie Mom Died Spatulas

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.”

Children Mother Months Six Married Spring Daughter England Disappear My Children My Daughter Village Composer Six Months New England Persephone Small Villages

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".”