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"Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it"

- Michael Apted

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This quote is written / told by Michael Apted somewhere between February 10, 1941 and today. He/she was a famous Director from United Kingdom. The author also have 12 other quotes.

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