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In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.

— Jonathan Silverman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

— Alice Walker

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

— Condoleezza Rice

I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.

— Helen Mirren

I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

— Maria Sharapova

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

— Suki Waterhouse

Tea is a huge part of my life.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

— Tom Holt

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

— Christopher Fry

The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry.

— Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

— Letitia Baldrige

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