#kin

In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#comes #credit #hours #income #increase

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#about #being #brought #city #commitment

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds. ↗

— Kate Smith

#because #been #bonds #buy #carefully

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad. ↗

— Kurtwood Smith

#away #based #came #character #creators

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#aware #coming #cut #down #end

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#aware #english #flat #how #i

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#about #back #book #california #class

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#between #class #england #huge #north

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her. ↗

— Mel Smith

#had #her #i #i think #i wish

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood