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Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off. Christopher Walken

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. Christopher Walken

Me Speak Language Somebody First Almost Like Said English Whom

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends. Claire Tomalin

Book Saved Despised Up Friends Very Child Which English Medieval

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments. Clara Shih

Family Class School Language Hong Kong Spent States Born Impediment Students Had Most Kong Chicago Childhood Placed English Elementary Elementary School United United States Second Program Speech

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence Darrow

You Speak Correct Learn Going English Even Whom

I moved to New Jersey when I was five, and I lived there for about six years. My dad was allocated to the New York branch of his company. Looking back, I'm so grateful because I got to learn both English and Korean at the same time, and it was just so natural for me, and it made it so much easier to study English afterwards. Claudia Kim

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I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?'' Claudio Ranieri

Saying Word Hear Ask Tutor English

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. Clay Shirky

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I'm obsessed with historical English royalty. Coco Rocha

Obsessed Historical English Royalty

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. Colin Wilson

Totally Writer Ideas Afraid Interested English Basically

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed. Colm Toibin

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When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up. Colm Toibin

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care. Concha Buika

Speak Care Proper Know Sing Sure Cannot English

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. Connie Francis

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.' Craig Ferguson

Teacher School Word Argument Out High High School Had Dropped Over Huge After Meaning Meaning Of English English Teacher

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. Cyril Cusack

Theatre World National Something French Identity National Identity Irish Whether English

I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail. Dak Prescott

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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. Damon Albarn

Country Emotion Irrational English

On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer. Dan Feuerriegel

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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school. Dan Stevens

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