#wales

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV. ↗

— Peter Hitchens

#americans #anti-british-sentiment #braveheart #britons #eavesdropping

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth. ↗

— Forrest Carter

#enemies #josey-wales #life #noremorse #death

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#first #first of all #good #high #i

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#anthony hopkins #antonio #brilliant #doing #everybody

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. ↗

— John Cale

#experience #growing #growing up #pretty #religion

Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it. ↗

— Charlotte Church

#been #british #craig #finding #gave

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#always #bed #bristol #channel #comfort

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. ↗

— Brian Harris

#born #indeed #mouth #music #poetry

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see 'Baywatch.' ↗

— David Hasselhoff

#nice #over #see #turn #tv