Studying English Quotes

14 quotes from 13 authors

When you step into an English program, the stories can be surprisingly messy. One student was shuffled out of Leeds for taking too many breaks, another found refuge at the Open University. Some hate dissecting beloved books; others recall textbooks that sounded like propaganda. You might also enjoy pages on Literature Analysis, Language Learning, or Academic Freedom.

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When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

Liu Wen

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Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded…

Nick Hornby

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I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in…

Miyavi

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Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men…

Nish Kumar

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I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where…

Ophelia Lovibond

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I'm working hard not only during training, but also studying English to talk to the crowd and respond by myself during interviews.

Charles Oliveira

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I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be…

Melanie Lynskey

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There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work…

Susanna Kearsley

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I was at Sussex University studying English lit and philosophy, I had two essays due in and three seminars that day, and…

Mura Masa

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I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D.…

Caterina Fake

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About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two…

Xiaolu Guo

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I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to…

Holliday Grainger

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“I love to read, but all through school I hated it when books were pulled apart and analyzed. Winnie-the-pooh as a political…

Susanna Kearsley

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“Our textbooks were ridiculous propaganda. The first English sentence we learned was "Long live Chairman Mao!" But no one dared to explain…

Jung Chang

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