523 Quotes About English

  • Author Anthony Hopkins
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    The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

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  • Author Carice van Houten
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    When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

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  • Author James Horner
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    My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

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  • Author Joanne Harris
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    We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

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  • Author John Hartson
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    When you are playing with good players, it doesn't matter if they are Argentinian, German, Welsh or whatever. Good players can join in and understand their team-mates on the pitch. In most of our games, you can't hear what the other lads are saying anyway, because of the noise of the crowd. I'm sure Shunsuke will want to learn English so he can enjoy the other lads' company, but there are so many Japanese people here watching him that he isn't going to be lonely.

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  • Author Lenny Harris
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    I thought it was going to hook so I tried to give it a little English at the plate, and it kind of stayed fair,

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