English Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		The question I propose to consider is in what way one may justify the study of English on cultural and disciplinary, and not merely on sentimental or utilitarian, grounds. My own conviction is that if English is to be thus justified it must be primarily by what I am terming the discipline of ideas.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Irving Babbitt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Bradley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Means
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cheryl Ladd
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kim Nam-joon
			
			
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		I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Radcliffe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Enrique Iglesias
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John McGahern
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alessandro Michele
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I would like to be able to be both a film actor and a stage actor - to be an American actor in the style of a lot the English actors who do films. They are these wonderful actors who can do everything.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Glover
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bernardo Bertolucci
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I'm used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kabir Bedi