It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for… — Maurice Dekobra Copy Share Image
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones.… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
“If we were still English we'd be drinking more and driving on the wrong side of the road - pretty much what… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't… — Delphine Arnault Copy Share Image
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she… — Oona Chaplin Copy Share Image
“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a… — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off.… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
“some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“It seems like we ever met," said Oriash, and his words make the kids fell silent. "Ever ... and so far away… — K.A.Z_Violin Copy Share Image
German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve,… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
“Took her [Ms. Whitlock] long enough to grade it." He mumbles. True. "But it took us forever to turn it in. She… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers." "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said. "Then, for a beginner," I… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
“Why no s for two deer, but an s for two monkeys? Brother Quang says no one knows. So much for rules!… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that… — Laura Bailey Copy Share Image
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born… — Maria Canals Barrera Copy Share Image
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
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