1340 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing. Penelope Cruz

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I came to New York to study ballet and English. Penelope Cruz

Study New Ballet Came York New York English

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive. Pep Guardiola

You Mistakes Controlling Our Out Some Main Football Main Thing Without Ball Survive Cannot Cut English English Football Thing Second

I think the English public loves period drama. I love watching them myself. It's such a massive part of our TV tastes, even though, as an actor, you don't want to be doing the same thing again and again. Perdita Weeks

Love Myself You Same Thing Think Drama Our Though TV Part Massive Period Doing Same Tastes Want Again Loves Public Them English Even Actor Thing Watching

It was a little bit strange as an English woman cast in 'Rebellion.' I read up about the events and, honestly, I knew very little about it to begin with it. It wasn't something that they cover in English schools at all. Perdita Weeks

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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. Pete Earley

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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records. Pete Townshend

You Law Kind Find Records Unto Armstrong Were Louis Louis Armstrong Banjo Themselves Really English Original Players Playing

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas. Peter Ackroyd

Work Nature Language Demanding String Unnatural Composer Only Write Piano Writer He Divisions He Or She Also She Force Within Equivalent Historian Histories Expect Against Produce Should English English Language Novelist Novels Why

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries. Peter Ackroyd

Music Spiritual World Sense Imagination Visionaries Attracted Well Exercise Always Material Gothic Material World Governed Been Sources Interested English Believed

What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was a cleric, so he could present himself as a leading religious figure. Second, because al-Awlaki had spent much of his adult life in the States, he communicated with his followers in colloquial, accessible American English. Peter Bergen

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Al-Qaeda, which means 'the base' in English, lost its base and training camps in Afghanistan, while its leaders were on the run, captured, or dead. One year after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was still on life support. Peter Bergen

English culture is highly literary-based. Peter Greenaway

Culture Highly English

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish. Peter Greenaway

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky. Peter Hermann

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People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s. Peter Jackson

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When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community. Peter Jones

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano. Peter Lawford

Nice Piano Looked Boy Standing English Who

I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism. Peter Morgan

Me Writing President Side Out About Someone Lazy Feel Obvious Got American Just Skepticism American President Help English Who European

Joe Hart has come in for a bit of criticism, but it's only because he's the England goalkeeper, and he's not got any competition. It's always been like that; it's just the way the English media works. Joe Hart is a tough cookie, and he won't listen to any of that. Peter Schmeichel

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The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way. Peter York

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I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages. Petina Gappah

Speak World Those Dream See Cannot Separate Languages English Two

I speak all my languages basically every day with the people in the dressing room, and it's a pleasure to be able to do so. On the pitch, if it's a group of players I'm trying to communicate with, then I use English because you need to make sure everyone understands what you are saying. Petr Cech

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