There’s nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
Melvyn Bragg (b. 1939), British broadcaster, author. Quoted in: Cuardian (London, 23 Sept. 1 988), referring to actor Richard Burton.
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