523 Quotes About English

  • Author W. Somerset Maugham
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    American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

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  • Author Antonya Nelson
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    I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.

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  • Author Joan Neilsen
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    It was immersion in the sense that when we got out of the van (at the state park) no English was supposed to be spoken.

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  • Author Rafael Nadal
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    I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

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  • Author Yael Naim
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    English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

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  • Author Alison Owen
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    I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.

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  • Author Alain Perrin
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    I was very pleased to work with Pleat, he knows English football, knows the players and it was interesting to work with him.

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