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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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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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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I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.
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I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.
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Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.
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Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
