George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
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Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?
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I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on the first day, and they told us to write about what we did over the summer. I can't remember exactly, but I think I walked out exactly at that point and went to the office to ask for my money back.
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
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Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
