I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!
At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
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.
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.