Norfolk Quotes - Page 1

The less said the better.
Jane Austen / Novelist
Norfolk
Said
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I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.
Horatio Nelson / Military Commander
Men
Glory
Norfolk
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The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul.
Raffaella Barker / Author
Landscape
Norfolk
Soul
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I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.
John Betjeman / Poet
Delight
Majesty
Norfolk
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See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
David Bowie / Musician
Broads
Ibiza
Norfolk
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I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland.
Martin Shaw / Actor
London
Norfolk
Scotland
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For years, I've mocked Norfolk and King's Lynn, and now I find out I'm from there!
Jeremy Hardy / Comedian
Norfolk
Lynn
Mocked
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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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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
Saffron Aldridge / Model
Yoga
Beach
Cinema
Listening
Long Walks
Norfolk
Walks
Love Music Long
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I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.
Amy Klobuchar / United States Senator
Minnesota
Norfolk
Submarine
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My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.
Miranda Raison / Actress
Mum
Norfolk
Sea
Bay
Near
Quite A Bit
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You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.
Stephen Fry / Comedian
Lovely
Norfolk
Oddities
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We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
Liz Truss /
Garden
Norfolk
Roadside
Vegetables
Stands
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I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.
Stephen Furst / Actor
Dinner
Norfolk
Part Time
Theater
Virginia
Pretty Good
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The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
Jeremy Northam / Actor
Love
Peace
Cooking
Funny Things
Light
London
Norfolk
Peaceful
Rarely
Wonderfully
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I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.
James Dyson / Inventor
Breakfast
Coastline
Miles
Norfolk
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I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
Harry Mathews / Author
Norfolk
Said
Virginia
Mediterranean
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I don't think about Norfolk as I write songs, sadly no! But things like 'High' is a song about watching the dawn come up over the sea, and I've had many of those situations.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Dawn
Norfolk
Sea
Sadly
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My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
Paul Nurse /
County
Father
Mother
Norfolk
Years
Mother Father Parents
Chauffeur
Cook
Early Years
Houses
Rural
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I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.
Amanda Donohoe / Film Actress
Fantastic
Heart Strings
Hollywood
Norfolk
Weather
Rural
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My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Norfolk
Primary School
Six
Accent
Dropped
Immediately
Primary
Rural
Teased
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Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Animal
Cat
Golf
Norfolk
Phenomenal
Sick
Sparks
Tournaments
Money Me Care
Cats
Charities
Include
Puts
Raise
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I remember 'The Norfolk Journal and Guide,' which is a black newspaper that still exists, but it was really influential, as you can imagine, in the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. But all of their archives are online and digitized, and it was a really great resource.
Margot Lee Shetterly /
Archives
Influential
Journal
Norfolk
Forties
Exists
Fifties
Guide
Newspaper
Resource
Sixties
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When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.
Stephen Furst / Actor
Nice Things
Norfolk
Good Walk People
Backstage
Lobby
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From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk - across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it's not John McDonnell's bitter socialist hooch. It's a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world - free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
Liz Truss /
Optimistic
Bars
Bitter
Britain
Camden
Coffee
Gin
Growing Up
Hungry
Norfolk
Revolution
Socialist
Thinking
Across
Free
Different View
Entirely
Generation
John
View
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When I first came up in the wrestling business, there was a movie called 'The California Dolls' about a female tag team - girls who are struggling trying to make it in the wrestling world. I started out in a tag team, and my name was Britani Knight, and my dad named us after The California Dolls. We were called The Norfolk Dolls.
Paige / Professional Wrestler
Girl
Movie
Business
Dad
California
Dolls
Female
Norfolk
Tag
Team
After
Named
Came
Struggling
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
Olivia Colman / Actress
Enormous
Norfolk
Surprise
Damaged
Homes
More And More
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