Queen of the Desert (2015)

Nick Waring: Sir Mark Sykes

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Quotes 

• Gertrude Bell : I operate for no one.

  Sir Mark Sykes : What is it then that attracts you to the Bedouin out there?

  Gertrude Bell : Something that you and your world you can not ever understand. It's their freedom. It's their dignity. It's their poetry of life.

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  Sir Mark Sykes : [stadning at a map]  Assuming become Ottoman Empire finally becomes defunct, Russia would get the Dardanelles, the portion closest to them, and the Italians the islands off the mainland.

  Winston Churchill : And the French had no problem with that?

  Charles Doughty-Wylie : The French have a problem with anything. That's their nature.