English Quotes
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To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.
W. H. Auden
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What happens when I go to America is I sound really English. Most people would start sounding American, but I do the opposite.
Cynthia Erivo
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I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.
Anya Taylor-Joy
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When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself.
Marie Lu
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I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.
Masahiro Tanaka
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The gallantry of an English peasant rarely expands into words.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
Jeremy Bulloch
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English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
John Cleese
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I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on.
Lauren Graham
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We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
Marianne Williamson
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When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.
Maria Semple
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I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.
Kevin Macdonald
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Christiano knows English, Messi knows football
Fabio Capello
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I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.
Allegra Huston
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When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.
Vir Das
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I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.
John Krasinski
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin
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I was an English major.
Jenna Bush
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'I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’-but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.'
Kurt Vonnegut
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I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.
Eiza Gonzalez
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I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
Ashwin Sanghi
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It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
Alan Pardew
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The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
Anthony Hopkins