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Who could forget Malcolm Devon?
Ted Dexter / Cricket Player
Devon
Forget
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At heart, I am a country girl who grew up in Devon.
Georgia Toffolo /
Devon
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Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.
Devon Franklin / Author
Devon
Don't Give Up
Giving Up
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I would love to live in Dorset or Devon and swim in the sea every day come rain or shine.
Lady Amelia Windsor /
Devon
Rain
Sea
Swim
Shine
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When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.
Devon Franklin / Author
Devon
Know How
Knows
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I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.
Laurel Van Ness /
Devon
Grandma
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I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.
Honor Blackman / Actress
Kids
Beautiful
Devon
Husband
Norfolk
Fond
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Brutal
Devon
Wrestling
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I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
Chris Martin / Singer-Songwriter
Family
Class
Degrees
Devon
Middle Class Family
Degree
Story
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West Wittering in Chichester is perfect for a short break and if I've got longer, Devon and Cornwall are my favourites places in Britain.
Konnie Huq / Television Presenter
Cornwall
Devon
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Our only objective at the start of the season was to stay in this league and we should do that. If we don't it'll be the Devon Loch of all Devon Lochs.
Paul Jewell / Football Manager
Devon
League
Should
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It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
Dawn French / Actress
Able
Cake
Cornwall
Devon
Fantastic
My Family
Visiting
Lots
Partly
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Devon
Feet
Granite
Height
Nursery
Rising
Sea
Shooting
Above
Nearly
Consists
Points
Proper
Region
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When I was young, my family used to go and stay in hotels on the south coast in places like Devon. I loved those holidays because they were with my brothers, who were away at school; I really looked forward to them.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Devon
Holidays
Hotels
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I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.
Joseph Mawle / Actor
Department
Devon
Dyslexia
Play
School
Badly
Boarding
Boarding School
Suffered
Specialised
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I'm really lucky to have a lot of friends in fashion. I don't know if that's common, but I just get along with a lot of people. My really close friends are Ireland Baldwin, Kendall Jenner, Lily Aldridge and Devon Windsor.
Gigi Hadid / Model
Close Friends
Devon
Ireland
Windsor
People Know Fashion
Lily
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Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
Henry Williamson / Author
Friends
Childhood
Devon
Eye
Father
Flower
Gentle
Old Friends
Passing
Rivers
Rocks
Everywhere
Beheld
Flowers
Trees
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I work with a stylist called Devon Nuszer and a makeup artist called Aaron Barry, and between those two, I trust them implicitly. I have the things I do over and over again and that I feel safe with, but they inspire me to take risks, and I trust them so much.
Rose Mciver / Film Actress
Devon
Inspire
Makeup
Stylist
Aaron
Barry
Implicitly
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Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.
Richard Branson / Business Magnate
Bait
Bass
Devon
Early Morning
Fishing
Holiday
Memories
My Time
Sand
Special
Lots
Catch
Holds
Normally
Special Place
Throughout
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My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to stay on farms because our children were pretty wild, and it was great going to the beach every day. We used to go to Launceston and Salcombe and all over those two counties.
Mary Berry /
Beach
Cornwall
Devon
Farms
Growing Up
Two
Used
Best Great Always
Pretty
Wild
Counties
Stay
Every Day
Holidays
Over
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At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.
Jonathan Dimbleby / Presenter
Home
Basics
Broadcasting
Carrots
Cooking
Devon
Huge
Jessica
Proportion
Timing
Timing Is Everything
Vegetables
Work Good Home
Apply
Does
Same
Exactly
Exactly What
Extremely
Fits
Particularly
Minute
Perhaps
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In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.
Julie Burchill / Writer
Hilarious
Carrier
Devon
Husband
Laid Back
Plastic
Sick
Type
Wales
Drive
Bag
Blissfully
Discovered
Extra
Hole
Map
Third
Turned
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