A Quote by Benedict Cumberbatch

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Born Class Either Me Means Royalty Upper Upper Class Wealth

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Benedict Cumberbatch
English - Actor
Born: July 19, 1976

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George Orwell

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Billie Joe Armstrong

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Rankin

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George Sanders

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Adrian McKinty

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Charles Murray

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Carl I. Hagen

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Steven Knight

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Duke Ellington

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Tracey Ullman

So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

Justin Cartwright

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Mark Fisher

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