My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the…

I've always been fascinated by the desert.

— Petra Collins

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

— Erika Slezak

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five…

— Chris Abani

“If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

— Jacki Weaver

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and…

— Lev Grossman

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent.…

— Amy Tan

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

— Helen Mirren

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the…

— Donatella Versace

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.…

— Washington Irving

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group…

— Eli Roth