Lord Byron Quotes
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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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.
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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 phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
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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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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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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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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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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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Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.
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We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.
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If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
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Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.
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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August.
