English Quotes
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I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.
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When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.
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They came three thousand miles, and died,To keep the Past upon its throne;Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,Their English mother made her moan.
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I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
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I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.
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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
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My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEETING AT 3 PM IN SCIENCE LAB 409 ON: THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE OF THE PUPIL: SHOULD MACBETH BE TAUGHT IN THE 6th TERM INSTEAD OF THE 5th?
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I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.
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A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.
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I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
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There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'
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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.
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The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
