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• Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
• You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
• I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
• Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
• 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
• I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
• I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
• I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
• I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
• The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
• Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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