Wilfred Owen 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 dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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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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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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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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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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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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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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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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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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One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.
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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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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
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English is not my first language.
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Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
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The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its mineral springs were supposed to be good for you. This was before the invention of bran. In the 20th century, Cheltenham grew into an active municipality.
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English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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My wish would be for positive representation and more diversity coming from Hollywood.
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
