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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
Scott Westerfeld
Class
Training
College
Single
Writer
Formal
English
Even
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.
Scott Westerfeld
Class
Science
Training
College
Single
Books
Some
Similarities
Writer
Adult
Ya
Science Fiction
However
Fiction
Formal
Which
English
Even
I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
Sean Bean
Bad
Bad Guy
Someone
Guy
Parts
Were
Been
Get
Trying
Refreshing
Quite
Just
Decent
While
English
Who
Compassionate
Playing
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.
Sean Connery
Speak
Wife
Met
Married
Boring
Through
Involved
French
She
Got
Quickly
Any
Getting
Golf
Conversations
Little
Us
Really
English
Why
Playing
Chance
English is not my language.
Sebastian Lelio
Language
English
I was a major Anglophile. My brothers and I were raised knowing both languages, French and English. My dad was born in Austria, educated in Britain, and then went back to France. My mom was born in England, but raised in Egypt and Malaysia. We were a globetrotter family.
Sebastian Roche
Mom
Family
Back
France
Born
Brothers
Both
Major
French
Knowing
Educated
Malaysia
Were
Austria
Egypt
Then
Languages
England
English
Dad
Raised
Britain
I know the English fans will treat players as they deserve, and I'm not worried about that in the slightest.
Sergio Ramos
Treat
Fans
Will
Worried
Slightest
About
Know
English
Deserve
Players
I've played many matches against English clubs and the national team - and I always notice a difference in those games. When you play against the inventors of football, it adds more importance to the result, and you can see that demonstrated by the levels on the pitch.
Sergio Ramos
You
Result
National
Adds
Those
See
More
Inventors
Football
Importance
Matches
Always
National Team
Pitch
Difference
Against
Clubs
Notice
Games
Team
English
Many
Play
Played
Levels
I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.
Sharon Creech
Me
Made
Think
Later
Possible
Write
Writer
Well
Because
Encouraged
Lot
Very
Did
Loved
Teachers
English
At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.
Sharon Horgan
Life
You
Money
Job
Thought
Degree
Proper
Know
Make
Go
Loser
Get
Did
Maybe
Want
Really
English
Media
Actually
University
I'm working on a film called 'Bonnie.' Bonnie means water. It's in English, and it's dealing with a future world in a megacity - which is what the U.N. says we're going to be - but in this megacity, a city that runs out of water.
Shekhar Kapur
Future
World
Water
Says
Out
City
Runs
Dealing
Going
Which
Working
Means
English
Film
I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
Shelley Hennig
Class
Algebra
Cried
Where
Happiest
English
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.
Sherwin B. Nuland
Depression
Death
Family
Poverty
Difficult
Other
Prone
Brought
Adolescence
Someone
Could
Write
Had
No-One
Spoke
Read
Lots
Up
Very
Close
Disease
Quite
Childhood
Being
Where
Little
English
Who
Things
Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches 'WWE' everywhere. Asia, Africa... some people don't understand English like me. That's why I use facial expressions and body motions.
Shinsuke Nakamura
Me
People
Language
Some People
Important
Everywhere
TV
TV Show
Some
Facial
Like
Know
WWE
Understand
Motions
Lot
Africa
Asia
Body
Use
Show
English
Expressions
Why
Watches
I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents.
Shiva Ayyadurai
Time
Me
Language
First
Before
Software
Email
Way
Recognize
Recognizing
Only
Inventions
Inventor
Never
Since
Term
Named
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Officially
Patents
Used
English
English Language
Even
Received
Copyright
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
Shuji Nakamura
Daily
Business
Language
Will
Drastically
Only
Implement
Economy
Continue
Contract
Reform
Japanese
English
Companies
Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.
Sibel Kekilli
Time
First
Difficult
Everyone
Accent
Because
First Time
Understand
Mix
Irish
Scottish
American
Acting
Hard
English
British
Set
Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.
Simon Beaufoy
Love
Say
Write
Writers
Because
Love Stories
Repressed
Stories
Mean
Really
English
Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting monochromatic world of the '50s, I had a sense that both Jewish and English history were full of color and light and animation.
Simon Schama
History
World
Dark
Light
Sense
Has-Been
Post-War
London
Both
Color
Had
Animation
Since
Were
Been
Cultural
Up
Child
Midst
Full
English
Growing
Growing Up
Gray
Jewish
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
Siri Hustvedt
Dreams
Giving
Giving Up
Drop
Fall
Sleeping
State
Apt
Self-Consciousness
Between
Altered
Another
Because
Up
Waking
Gradual
Being
Transition
Asleep
Full
English
Expression
Consciousness
'That's Not Me' video cost me 80 English pounds.
Skepta
Me
Cost
Pounds
Video
English
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
Sofia Vergara
Go Away
Write
Perfectly
Accent
Read
Understand
Go
English
Away
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
Sonia Sotomayor
Happiness
People
Mother
Diabetes
Father
Parents
Poverty
Become
Own
Think
Intrude
My Own
Spoke
Since
Most
Although
Limited
Juvenile
Bilingual
English
Things
I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.
Sonya Walger
People
World
Internet
Pool
Think
Brits
Smaller
New
Days
Up
Irish
Australians
American
Just
Availability
Little
Speaking
English
English-Speaking
Actor
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.
Sophia Bush
Love
Myself
Good
Me
Writing
School
Opportunity
Made
College
Lose
Incredible
Kid
Given
Had
Excited
Good Writing
Study
Journalism
Most
Documentaries
Came
Being
Influenced
Literature
Storytelling
Really
Teachers
English
Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.
Sophie Marceau
Emotions
Say
Though
About
Emotional
Talk
French
Person
Behalf
Quite
Oh
Cannot
English
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