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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now. Aaron Lazar

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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs. Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Funny You Beatles People Try Would Give No-One Songs Like Know Accent Knows Because Sound Go America Just Anyone Ask Really England English English People Ever

I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor. Aasif Mandvi

Me Think Way States Those Has-Been Kind Indian Inside Some Born Adulthood Feel Stuffed Like Been Up Person American Grew Inform Which Then England English Helps Actor Mumbai Things

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Education School Secondary Religious Forget Going English Mecca English School

Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject. Adam Rodriguez

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different. Adhir Kalyan

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When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics. Aileen Lee

History Physics Smart Girl Took Classmates Pushed Computers Had Like Calculus None Boy Were Math Lots Up Anything Us Really English European Growing Growing Up

My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment. Ajay Mehta

Sports Human Being Brilliant Father Directed He Performed Academics Wrote His Very Human Arts Being Regiment Special English Plays

I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity. Al Gore

A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking. Al Madrigal

Me Generation Latinos Like Lot Speaking English English-Speaking Third

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. Alaina Huffman

More Tend French Than Often Curse English

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh. Alain de Botton

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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Alan Perlis

Word Every Programming Our Would Were Languages English

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent. Alan Rickman

Nervous Every Think Accent Newcastle English Actor

There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy. Alan Yang

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It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success. Alanis Morissette

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I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both. Alastair Reynolds

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world. Albert Bushnell Hart

World Nation Powerful Powerful Nation Most Most Powerful Were English

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important. Aleksandar Hemon

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