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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
Otto Hahn
Poison
First
Our
Onward
Hague
Least
Were
Surprised
Very
Did
Convention
Much
Used
English
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James
Good
Obligation
Enemies
Our
Release
Liking
Friends
Forgiving
Us
English
Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.
Pamela Druckerman
Me
Back
Immersed
Put
American
English
Zeitgeist
If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
Pankaj Mishra
You
Living
Think
India
Abroad
Writers
Around
Were
English
Many
Publishing
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
Pankaj Mishra
Education
Become
Setting
Out
Brought
Given
More
Attempted
His
Than
English
Gandhi
Initially
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
Park Chan-wook
Language
Own
Films
Dream
Boring
My Own
Only
Very
Process
English
English Language
Ever
Imagine
I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
Parker Harris
Out
Computers
Obsessed
Also
French
Became
Coming
Math
Up
Grew
Loved
Literature
Loving
English
English Literature
Apple
Apple II
Actually
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
Pat Boone
Teacher
Music
People
Become
Few
East
Through
Ironically
Did
Far
Far East
English
English Teacher
Million
Million People
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
Pat Conroy
Art
Me
History
Humanity
Words
Language
Related
Our
Complexity
Tell
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Continuity
Singularity
Itself
Story
English
Species
Origins
I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
Patricia Riggen
Language
First
Though
Write
Writer
Because
Handicap
Just
Anymore
English
Even
Harder
If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
Patricia Riggen
Release
Easier
Makes
Get
Much
Your
English
Film
Wide
I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
Patrick Carman
Degree
College
Economics
Took
Courses
English
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
Patrick Rothfuss
Gorgeous
Language
College
Seem
Shakespeare
Poets
Could
Chaucer
Come
Most
Renaissance
Couple
Couple Years
Make
Read
How
Been
Years
Effort
Frost
After
Fantasy
English
English Language
Novels
Harlem
Appreciate
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
Patti Stanger
Beautiful
Mom
Most Beautiful
Word
Language
Adopt
Most
Beautiful Word
Child
Want
Really
English
English Language
I was a good boy in high school , and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.
Paul G. Tremblay
Good
Class
Remember
School
Reading
Own
Pleasure
Kid
High
High School
Adventure
Stuff
Read
Boy
Really
Your
Choose
English
Vaguely
I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.
Paul Giamatti
School
Major
Undergraduate
Yale
Did
Graduate
Graduate School
The Graduate
Theater
Acting
English
English Major
I do love my full English breakfast, but not every day. What I can't do without first thing in the morning, though, is my Danish pastry or a croissant - anything with a laminated dough, enriched with butter to make it beautifully golden and flaky.
Paul Hollywood
Love
Day
Morning
Every Day
First
Breakfast
Every
Enriched
Danish
Though
Make
Beautifully
First Thing
Without
Pastry
Golden
Anything
Full
Dough
English
Butter
Thing
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
Paul Kane
Work
Strange
Book
Constantly
Adventure
Industry
Comic
Comic Book
Coming
Up
Artist
Maybe
Wanted
Stories
English
Actually
Assignments
In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.
Paul Merton
Time
Comedy
Wrong Time
Kicked
Neil
Posters
Attacked
Put
Head
Wrong
Wrong Place
Got
Were
Up
Store
Place
Midnight
English
Helped
Street
Players
Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
Paul Watson
Russian
Instructions
None
Unfortunately
Bargain
English
I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.
Paul Weller
People
Rose
Down
Every
Side
Station
Though
Never
Had
Written
Always
Been
Forget
Tube
Sensitive
Midnight
English
Fully
Appreciated
You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality.
Pauline Marois
Work
You
Reality
Minority
Half
Important
Per
New
Know
Protect
Always
Real
North
North America
America
Going
Often
After
Cent
Us
English
Who
Population
Now
Two
I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.
Paulo Dybala
Speak
French
Anything
Mean
English
I want to have roles in English.
Paz Vega
Roles
Want
English
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.
Peaches Geldof
Respect
Writing
Embarrassing
Degrading
Journalists
Like
Terrible
Because
Just
Which
Themselves
Succumbed
English
If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.
Pedro Almodovar
Freedom
Me
Money
Will
Independence
Way
Come
Make
Fit
Movie
Hollywood
Produce
English
Europe
Keep
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