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 really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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I like to collect DVDs of most English films.
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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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The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August.
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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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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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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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I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
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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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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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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.
