Edward R. Murrow 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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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning 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 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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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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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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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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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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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 have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.
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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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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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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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'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.
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I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
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Dickens belongs to the English people.
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You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.
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Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.
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I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
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He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
