"The Irish and British, they love satire, its……" — Ben Nicholson
"The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture."
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27 Quotes by Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson has 27 quotes on this site.
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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur,…
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I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that…
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At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for…
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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in…
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If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately…
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Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire,…
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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that…
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I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
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The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom,…
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More British Quotes
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything…
— David Attenborough
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
— Gerry Adams
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
— Beck
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
— Tony Benn
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of…
— Sade Adu
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent…
— Orlando Bloom
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
— Bono
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We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be…
— Richard Branson
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We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and…
— Richard Branson
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is…
— Louise Brown
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