Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back…

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

— Mary Pilon

Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup…

— Pamela Druckerman

And as a mother of three with a full-time job, podcasts gave me the illusion of having a vibrant social life. I was constantly…

— Pamela Druckerman

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

— Roberto De Vicenzo

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

— Irwin Shaw

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet…

— Will Self

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this…

— Nicholas Stoller

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's…

— Allegra Huston

“You speak very good English for an American.”

— Nico

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries -…

— Michiel Huisman

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're…

— Mike Myers

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the…

— Allegra Huston

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since…

— Robert Burchfield

“[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American, an Irish-American…

— Christopher Hitchens

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

— Christopher Hitchens