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I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing all sorts of stuff that I've never played before while the mind - and the body - still functions.
Diana Rigg
Hope
You
Mind
Before
Complacent
Promise
Classics
Never
Stuff
Sort
Because
Still
Greek
While
Body
English
Functions
Played
Playing
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.
Diane von Furstenberg
Man
Look
Italian
Trying
English
Who
Englishman
My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving the family destitute. An uncle, who worked as a carpenter, supported the family.
Dianne Feinstein
Education
Family
Age
Speak
Mother
Father
Uncle
Young
Carpenter
Destitute
Russia
Had
Supported
She
Leaving
Child
Died
Young Child
Worked
English
Who
Her
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.
Dick Schaap
Game
Language
Clever
Hook
Intrigue
Gifts
Observant
Leads
New
Reader
Came
Up
Being
Stories
English
English Language
Many
Using
I was also in love with the English language.
Dick Schaap
Love
Language
Also
English
English Language
Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.
Diego Costa
Goals
Enjoy
Football
Like
Well
Score
Aggression
English
English Football
Play
Play Football
Things
I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.
Diego Della Valle
People
Remember
Old
Language
Too Many People
Looking
Beginning
Every
Too
Easy
Pronounce
Since
Name
Sound
Were
Very
Shortened
Then
Asking
Used
English
Who
Many
Two English defenders were among the finest I played against: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand.
Diego Forlan
John
Rio
Finest
Terry
Were
Ferdinand
Against
English
Among
Played
Two
Defenders
I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.
Dikembe Mutombo
Speak
Language
Mind
Other
Tried
Some
Cross
Never
Court
Any
Just
Reason
English
Even
Playing
Basketball
Basketball Court
I like all kinds of music, be it old Hindi movie songs or English classics.
Dimple Kapadia
Music
Old
Kinds
Classics
Songs
Like
Hindi
Movie
English
There is a future for English films. Don't we all talk, breathe, and think in English? If we can talk and think in English, we can also make films in English.
Dimple Kapadia
Future
Think
Films
Talk
Also
Make
Breathe
English
I speak Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, and English.
Dimple Kapadia
Speak
Hindi
English
There were about 400 heads of state from countries all over the world. I walked out and played 'Hotel California,' and everybody in the place gave me a standing ovation, and half of those countries don't even speak English.
Don Felder
Me
Speak
World
Half
Everybody
Gave
State
Those
Out
About
Hotel
Ovation
Countries
Over
Heads
California
Were
Walked
Place
Standing
English
Even
Played
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
Donald Barthelme
Great
Architecture
Mother
Father
Wicked
Drama
Ways
Pennsylvania
Studied
Wit
She
Sort
Influence
Where
English
University
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
Art
Creativity
Think
Having
Idea
Since
Doing
Been
Trying
Graduate
Literary
Avoid
English
Ever
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
Douglas Hyde
Character
Nation
National
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Countrymen
Liked
Felt
Always
Subject
Trait
Celtic
Cannot
Disliked
Help
English
Who
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.
Duncan Jones
You
Man
Sister
White
Baby
Somalia
Always
American
May
African
African-American
Noticed
English
Dad
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.
Dylan Moran
Love
You
Voices
Inspired
Host
He
Since
Singer
Isaac
Beckett
Always
Dickens
Literature
English
English Literature
Funniest
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White
Education
Sometimes
Judgment
Luck
More
Mere
Like
Sheer
Than
Taste
Getting
Across
Usage
English
Street
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster
Destruction
Countryside
Genuine
Tragic
Theme
English
English Countryside
Growth
I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English.
Earl Sweatshirt
Man
Words
Complicated
Rudimentary
Write
Like
Because
Listen
Just
Speaking
English
Even
Grown
Grown Man
I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
Eavan Boland
Woman
Men
Before
Saw
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Bent
Table
Over
Wrote
Years
Irish
Contradiction
After
Forms
Explored
Sealed
English
Night
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.
Ed Westwick
Family
Class
Speedy
City
London
Lifestyle
Outside
Surrounded
Up
Just
Middle
Middle Class
Grew
Little
English
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
Eddie Redmayne
You
Sit
Everything
No Idea
About
Idea
Opinion
Auditions
Up
America
Send
Where
Turn
English
Actor
I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
Eden Hazard
Good
Needs
Will
Young
Finish
Football
He
Still
Very
Intelligent
Just
English
English Football
Belgium
Played
Player
Adapt
I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
Edgar Ramirez
School
Language
Country
Classes
Never
Had
Lot
German
Austria
English
English-Speaking
Lived
Ever
Second
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