Oscar Wilde 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 taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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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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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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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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Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
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Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
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When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
