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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce
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Novelist
Committed
Ingenious
Reading
Reason
Reason Why
Torture
Writing
English
Public
Explains
Previous
Sins
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
Geoffrey Canada
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Social Activist
Art
Children
Math
Physical Education
School
Subjects
Arts
Basic
English
Cover
Physical
Sacrificing
Schools
Studies
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I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.
Johan Cruyff
/
Fantastic
English
Small Children
Spoke
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Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.
Michael Jackson
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Singer-Songwriter
Nice
Yeah
Heart Me Feel
English
Tabloid
Wacko
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I immigrated when I was six so I had to learn English and I was always an outsider from a young age, and so I think my drive was that I wanted to fit in.
Lulu Wang
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Six
Young Age
Age Always Young
Drive
English
Outsider
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The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Scott Mcnealy
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Businessman
Technology
Dollars
English
Charge
The Only Thing
Windows
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Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.
Sriti Jha
/
Hindi
Language
Native
Speak
Besides
English
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I've got massive respect for Arsene Wenger for what he's done for the English game, and it would have been good to work under him, but that didn't happen.
Gareth Barry
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Footballer
Massive
Work Good Respect
English
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My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
Ben Elliot
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Eating
Obsession
English
Boarding
List
Low
Partly
Schools
Spent
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Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
Sandra Cisneros
/
Writer
Lifetime
Needs
Students
Too Much
Written
Feel
Another
Much
Quite
English
Too
Student
Master
Learn
Spanish
Spoken
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I love American English, not least because a lot of it was ours to begin with. Indeed, many Americanisms can be found in the works of William Shakespeare.
Susie Dent
/
Lexicographer
Begin
Lot
English
Works
William
Indeed
Least
Ours
Shakespeare
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First in France, first in Romania - by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine.
Nostradamus
/
Apothecary
Deeds
France
Marvellous
Romania
Sea
Alliance
Great Lose Will
English
Brute
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My mum gave me pretty good genes in that department. She had gorgeous skin. That good English complexion. She never seemed to have a blemish that I knew of.
Julie Andrews
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Film Actress
Complexion
Department
Genes
Gorgeous
Mum
Good Me Never
Skin
English
Pretty Good
Seemed
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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Poet
Done
Gentleman
Great Service
Mankind
Notion
Race
Great Done World
English
Service
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I love English football because of its brilliant atmosphere, intensity of the competition and the culture of respect that fans and players have for the game.
Ronald Koeman
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Soccer Player
Respect
Atmosphere
Brilliant
Competition
English Football
Fans
Football
Intensity
English
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Sometimes I don't use the words 'will' and 'want' in the right way. The German word 'will' is the English word 'want,' so that's a little bit of the problem.
Jurgen Klopp
/
Football Manager
Right Way
German
English
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People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
Stewart Copeland
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Musician
Band
Disappointed
People
Police
Regard
Accent
People Way American
American Accent
English
Hear
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Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
Mike Myers
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Actor
Canada
Celery
Essence
Subtle
Transcendentalism
Like
More
Being
American
English
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'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.
Sandra Cisneros
/
Writer
Accepted
Challenging The Status Quo
Hispanic
Latino
Status Quo
Want
White
English
Word
Origin
Quo
Status
Wants
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I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
Alex Sharp
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English Literature
Gifted
Hooked
Struggle
Theatre
Academically
English
Maths
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James Nicoll
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Pockets
Pursued
Unconscious
Vocabulary
Words
Beat
English
Borrow
Languages
Down
Occasion
Rifle
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English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.
James Fenton
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Poet
English Language
English Poetry
Language
Modern
As Far As
Begins
English
Whenever
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My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.
Chris Abani
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Author
Feisty
Moved
Nigeria
Oxford
English
Foot
Met
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White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.
David Lammy
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British Politician
Confined
League
Strange
Supremacy
White
English
Deep South
Gatherings
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If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.
Joseph P. Kennedy
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Former United States Ambassador To The United Kingdom
Hate
Son-in-law
Actor
English
Worse
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
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Poet
Communication
Composition
Dialect
English Language
Growth
Race
Range
Accretion
English
Freely
Viewed
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My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.
Dylan O'brien
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Actor
College
Preparing
Psychology
Semester
Sociology
Audition
English
Cared
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Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
Tanit Phoenix
/
Model
Firsts
Language
Years
Accent
Although
English
Never Know More
Travelling
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I have achieved more than I could have ever imagined and feel very privileged to have played for such a long time alongside some of the greats of the English game.
Alastair Cook
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Cricketer
Long Time
Privileged
Achieved
Time Game Long
Alongside
Played
English
Time Long Game
Greats
Imagined
Such A Long Time
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I felt that 'English Vinglish' was tailor-made for me since I found my character Shashi so relatable. Her simplicity and sensitivity attracted me towards the role.
Sridevi
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Character
Felt
Sensitivity
Simplicity
Since
Attracted
English
Towards
Her
Role
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I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'
Anchee Min
/
Author
Sesame Street
Understood
English
Street
Sesame
Watching
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I remember I told my mom that I was scared. I asked her, how will I talk to everyone in English? And my mom gave me a dictionary, where I learned one day at a time.
Apl.de.ap
/
Rapper
Dictionary
One Day
One Day At A Time
Scared
Time Mom Me
Asked
English
Gave
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My music diet growing up was lots of sugar. Lots of retro-pop sugar. Motown, disco. A lot of English rock, like the Turtles, the Zombies, Bowie and stuff like that.
Børns
/
Diet
Bowie
Disco
Growing Up
Motown
Sugar
Lots
English
Rock
Zombies
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I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.
Carmen Miranda
/
Singer
Dog
Hot
Hot Dog
Juice
Turkeys
Words
English
Say
Grape
Sandwich
Turkey
Yes
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On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins
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Musician
Good Day
Language
Work Out
Work Good Day
English
Local
Sit
Speaks
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My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.
Judah Friedlander
/
Actor
Champion
Chinese
Language
Mermaid
Always World Champion
Also
English
Star
Wars
Hat
Shirt
Spanish
Star Wars
World Champion
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I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt.
Joe Lhota
/
American Politician
Classic
Czech
Little Bit
Missing
Jewish
English
Irish
Russian
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English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
Alice Waters
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Chef
Inspired
Writer
Author
David
English
Cook
Elizabeth
Owner
Richard
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I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
Sean Bean
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Film Actor
Compassionate
Decent
Guy
Playing Someone
Refreshing
Trying
Bad Guy
English
Parts
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Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
Zebulon Pike
/
Explorer
Instruction
Posts
Pretence
Territory
English
Direction
Flag
Immediate
No Time
Suffer
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If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.
Morrissey
/
Bland
British
Sun
Accent
Apart
English
Hear
Walk
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More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
John W. Vessey, Jr.
/
English Language
Language
Misunderstood
Pentagon
Understanding
Battlefield
English
Factor
Screwed
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I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
Christopher Guest
/
Baron Haden-Guest
America
Comedian
Favourite
Humour
Peter
Sellers
English
Clicked
Deeply
Developed
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Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.
David Tang
/
Businessman
Men
Britain
I Love Him
Irritating
Might
Thinking
Tongue
Love Man Wife
English
Master
Fry
Some People
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I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.
Vasyl Lomachenko
/
English
In Fact
Interview
Perfectly
Solely
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Carlos Santana
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Musician
Language
Long
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Melody
Pure
Realised
Speak
Yiddish
Time Music Long
English
Clearly
Instrumental
Outside
Spanish
Speaks
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
Jackie Chan
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Actor
Blah
Crazy
Perfect
Together
English
Speaking
String
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I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.
Cynthia Nixon
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Actress
English Major
Fun
Analyzer
Apart
Back
English
Find
Old
Have Fun
Hidden
Major
Secrets
Tearing
Tend
Texts
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Writer
Mastery
Mind
Mislead
Sloppy
Syntax
Vocabulary
Weak
Weak Minds
Writer
Advertisement
Prefer
English
Minds
Thank
Uses
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Writer
Running
Air
Deceptive
English Language
Half
Hype
Language
Simplicity
Writing
Little
Thing
English
Both
Run
Hour
Machine
Some
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