English Quotes
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I write in what we call Hiberno-English, and it would be disastrous to lose my literary accent, as both Joyce and Beckett began to do in exile. In their case the unique tone of voice they each unwittingly adopted only made for a deeper poetic intensity; I suspect if I were to undergo a similar loss the result would not be so productive.
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The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
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Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
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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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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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Some people say I sound Australian. I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam. Nearly everyone in Denmark speaks English, and TV shows are only ever subtitled, not dubbed.
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I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
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The script of Regression wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro Amenabar and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.
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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
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The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.
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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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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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No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
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For my dad to say he's proud of me - in English - is a really big deal.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.
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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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Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.
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I've always used Old English in certain songs.
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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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Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
