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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate. J. R. R. Tolkien

Language Fall Field Think Corner Detailed Seem Rate Uncharted Exciting Almost Attention Soon Ideas Pieces Because Up Begin Personal Goes Any Middle As Far As Little Far Turns Notions English Received

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. Jack Prelutsky

Language Only Poetry Look Read Because English

Throughout their career, the likes of Xavi and Andres Iniesta have all been taught to a play a certain way. English players have been taught a different way, just like Brazil have been taught a different way. Jack Rodwell

Brazil Way Throughout Like Likes Been Just Taught Different Certain Certain Way English Different Way Play Players Career

The only people who should play for England are English people. Jack Wilshere

People Only Should England English Who English People Play

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English. Jack Wilshere

Me You Make Years Five England English Lived

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? Jackson Browne

Language Say Would Would-Be Parked Outside Like Least Heard Banjo Often Sentence English English Language Porsche Player

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm. Jackson Browne

Class People Trapped Paradigm English English People

I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it. Jacky Ido

Life Time Me Learning Speak Listening Problems Singing France Easy Brooklyn About Bubble Had Identify Issues Were Up Same Same Time Grew Little Biggie Next English Lived Right Basically

More than anything, acting was more like a confidence thing. I love words - I love English - but I don't have a hugely academic brain, so I enjoyed it because it was a bit of a respite. I don't think I really had a sense I would actually be a musician or an actor; I just wanted to be around that. Jacob Anderson

Love Confidence Words Sense Think Bit Musician Would More More Than Anything Had Like Academic Because Around Brain Than Hugely Just Wanted Anything Really Acting English Actor Actually Thing Enjoyed

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling. Jain

Music People Other About Voice Lot English Connecting Travelling

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else. Jamaica Kincaid

Life Language Will My Life Become Nothing Else Distortion Out One Of The Things Something Something Else Remains Normal Same Just Happen Turn English English Language Now Things Started

In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically. James Bobin

History Comedy Seen TV Very The History Of Children Us Much Show England English Thing Muppet Treasures Basically

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. James Buchan

Work Great World Result Thorough William Seemed Generations Fair Come Another His Survey Commissioned Succeeding Realm English Dispassionate Conqueror

I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature. James Callis

You Degree Drama Considered Broader Study Studying Principally Course Because Option Get Literature Interested Landed Themselves English Reasons Many Things Spectrum Two Plays University

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient. James D. Watson

You Patient Lover Only Never Heard English

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals. James Fallows

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned. James Fenton

Time People Language Some People Think Say Those Some Anglo-Saxon Shakespeare Poetry Between Learned Accept Because Continuity Traditions Begins Any Established Different Anyway Which Different Language English By The Time

At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse. James Fenton

Practice Other Range Kinds Poetic Hymn Reach Ballad Lines Verse Familiar Form Length English Whole Basic Four

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. James Fenton

Somewhere Relaxed Poetic Most Around Line Manageable English Syllables

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