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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Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it's sing-alongable, even if you don't speak English.
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My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
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I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!
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He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
