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.
Hector Hugh Munro
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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.
Carice van Houten
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
Candace Camp
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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.
Maluma
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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.
Bai Ling
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Lafcadio Hearn
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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.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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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.
W. G. Sebald
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
Umberto Eco
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My English is good because I have a good ear.
Barbara Sukowa
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of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.
Victor Borge
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Walker Percy
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If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it was before, or at the end of the day entertains people, than we've done our job.
Bill Goldberg
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I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.
David Wells
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I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
Bill Clinton
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I like being on stage. I love seeing new cities and returning to cities that I love. It can be a little tiring because you don't sleep in your own bed, you're in a different hotel every night and the hours are really strange, which, for me, kind of works out because I'm a bit nocturnal in general. I think for some people it might be tougher than for others because you're usually not getting to sleep until 3 or 4 in the morning at the earliest.
Reeve Carney
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My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
John McCain
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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.
Hector Hugh Munro
