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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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.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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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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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.
Isaac Asimov
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I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.
Billy Crystal
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I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.
Jonathan Anderson
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When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I knew how to do it.
Karen Bender
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I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.
Natalie Cole
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Every day, I put on a suit, and I felt like I was playing dress-up in my mum's closet. It just wasn't right.
Lauren Gibbs
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Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.
Don Kardong
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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
