Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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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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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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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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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
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My English is good because I have a good ear.
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of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul. Somewhere it, the English soul, received an injection of romanticism which nearly killed it.
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Surely there is no language more majestic than that of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible, and if I am to have one language that I know as only a native can know it, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate that it is English.
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My English teacher wanted to flunk me in Junior High(Damn)...thanks a lot,next semester I'll be 35...I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and told him to change the grade on the paper.
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English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.
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German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
