I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.


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It's a great pity that the Royal Society cannot itself afford to purchase them so that they could be...
LORD REES
Children don't have to be geniuses in these areas. It doesn't have to be something that you see so m...
MARIBEL REES
Our emphasis will be that all the classes will be taught with an arts-integrated curriculum so we ca...
MARIBEL REES
What's happened is that Arctic Monkeys have come along and taken all his fans away with one fell swo...
PAUL REES
I know the General Assembly is struggling over the money end of it now. And the governor seems to be...
REES SHEARER
Overall, the results are ahead of expectations and it gives the company an argument to fight for in ...
TIM REES
My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from p...
NIGEL FARAGE
Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
NIGEL KNEALE
Brexit will happen.
NIGEL FARAGE
My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was...
NIGEL HAMILTON
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the s...
NIGEL HAMILTON
That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl...
NIGEL HAMILTON
Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b...
NIGEL HAMILTON
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas...
NIGEL HAMILTON
What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w...
NIGEL HAMILTON
In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON
The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collatera...
NIGEL HAMILTON
We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON
In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON
I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON
At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON
For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON
The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON
As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON
President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON
The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON
Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON
We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON
I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.
NIGEL FARAGE
We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
NIGEL FARAGE
I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best...
NIGEL MANSELL
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
NIGEL LAWSON
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
NIGEL SHORT
I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rus...
NIGEL MANSELL
Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON
Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
NIGEL HAMILTON