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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My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.
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Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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I had piercings all over my face, which did look dreadful, but I got them done while waiting for my husband Michael to get a tattoo. I was bored.
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Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack.
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He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
