Stephen Moyer (Stephen John Emery) Quotes
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
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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 took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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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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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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In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
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Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
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The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
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Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
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English is not my first language.
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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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It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.
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The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.
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I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.
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I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.
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I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
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When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
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I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
