English Quotes
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I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.
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Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
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I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.
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I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
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Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”
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Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
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When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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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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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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I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
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Of the Black Prince his son at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. Old English Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this iourney be his, and the honoure therof.
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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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My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
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Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.
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The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
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American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
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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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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
