English Quotes
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the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
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Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.
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I like the emotion in the English league. You look at the TV, and you see the stadium and the fans.
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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
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It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
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I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.
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English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
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President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.
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My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.
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I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher.
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If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
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I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book. The Book I Should Write should be realistic, since I studied English Lit. It should be cultural. It should reflect where I am today. The Book I Wanted to Write would probably include flying women, magic, and all of that.
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In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.
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I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
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If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
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English never met a word it didn't like.
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The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!
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My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.
