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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
I'm a bit of a vault of secrets. I'm a victim of English reserve, which is slightly in contrast to how I communicate when I auction.
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.
My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.
What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.
The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.
Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.
I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
I love the English league. I think it's the best in the world, but I have a problem with Christmas and New Year's Day because you have to play.
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
When I was young we weren't even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it 'vernacular,' as if only English was the real tongue.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
'English Vinglish' has given me so much respect. I am really thankful to director Gauri Shinde and her husband R. Balki. They blindly believed in me.
My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute during the Queen's Christmas speech.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.