Edward R. Murrow Quotes
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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.
Garrison Keillor
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
Camilla Lackberg
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Vikas Swarup
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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.
Hamdi Ulukaya
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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.
M.I.A.
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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?
Kate Bush
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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.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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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.
Eden Hazard
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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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.
Natsuo Kirino
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
Watkin Tudor Jones
