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After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I am a city girl. Huma Qureshi

You People Speak Thought Girl City Wear Know Am After Sentence English Jeans Gangs

I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards. I. M. Pei

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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right. Ian Mcewan

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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be. Ian Mcewan

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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. Ian Mcewan

Secrecy Would Would-Be End Personal Social Requires English Novel

When I'm being interviewed, presumably it's because people want to know how I feel about something or what my motivation is, not because they want to hear what I sound like in English. I wouldn't be true to the task if I responded in my unrefined English. Ichiro Suzuki

People Be True Presumably About Something True Feel Like Know Because How Sound Motivation Hear Task Being Want English

Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish. Ilan Stavans

Learning Language Sacrifice Latinos Give Up Mean Should English Original

Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain. Ilan Stavans

Marriage Word States Entire Only Civilizations Divorce Perhaps Also Continent Encounter Hispanic Spain Spanish English United United States

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. Iman

Speak Better Language First Foreign Foreign Language Italian Than English

I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me. Irina Shayk

Family Me Speak First Everything Stay Russia Shape Like How Left Model Any Taught Really Team English Believed

I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that. Irvine Welsh

People Tried Write Like Talking Were Standard English

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. Irwin Shaw

Born Write He Poland Singer Isaac Still American English

You never know how you're going to go down as an English commentator in Australia. Isa Guha

You Down Never Know How Go Australia Commentator Going English

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. Isabel Allende

Speak Books Write Spanish English Published

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away. Isabella Bird

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India. Ismail Merchant

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In England, everyone is really physically strong. They can play three games, and then they are ready to play the fourth. If you are a Spanish team, and you give away a corner against an English team, then you have to be ready. Ivan Rakitic

You Strong Three Corner Everyone Give Physically Ready Against Spanish Then Really Games Team England English Away Play Fourth

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes. J. C. Chandor

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I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science. J. G. Ballard

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I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English. J. M. G. Le Clezio

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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. J. R. R. Tolkien

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