English Quotes
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Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
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I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
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I want to have roles in English.
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I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
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I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.
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At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.
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I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.
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No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
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The English peace is the peace of the grave.
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.
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We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.
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Anyone that was raised with a Germanic language will agree that our tone is strong, especially once translated into English.
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
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Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'
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American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
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The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
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She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. "Best shoe lesson they ever had," she told me cheerfully. "Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.'" To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.
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I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.
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Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
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Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.
