English Quotes
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The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.
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I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
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I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
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English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
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It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.
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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
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My dad was an English professor.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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I like to collect DVDs of most English films.
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The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
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I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
