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Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
Sophie Marceau
Language
Think
More
French
Than
Acting
English
Even
So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.
Sophie Marceau
Happy
Sometimes
Will
Think
Performance
English
I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.
Spencer Boldman
Love
Great
School
Few
Every
Books
Months
Favorite
Great Gatsby
High
High School
Read
Were
Moby
Moby Dick
English
Assigned
Two
I never thought I will ever get back into films when I took that break. 'English Vinglish' just happened.
Sridevi
Will
Thought
Films
Took
Back
Never
Get
Just
Break
Happened
English
Ever
'English Vinglish' is simple; that's why people like it. The film has simplicity and sensitivity. There is no melodrama. Some things have been conveyed just through expressions and no lines.
Sridevi
People
Simple
Simplicity
Melodrama
Some
Some Things
Through
Like
Been
Lines
Just
Sensitivity
Conveyed
English
Film
Expressions
Why
Things
Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.
Sriti Jha
Speak
Language
Too
Besides
About
Make
Hindi
Just
Native
English
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
Stacy Schiff
Class
World
School
Positively
Would
Perfect
Write
Ideal
Ideal World
Sings
Been
His
Subject
Grade
Grade School
English
Thereafter
Star
I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.
Stana Katic
Speak
Three
Other
French
Read
Italian
Languages
English
I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.
Stefflon Don
Broken
People
Speak
Parents
Own
Had
Weird
Accent
Were
American
Dutch
English
Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot - like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit.
Stella Maxwell
Time
Half
Lost
Side
Bit
Kindergarten
Born
Almost
Spoke
Almost All
New
Like
French
Obviously
Lot
Moved
Where
New Zealand
Little
Little Bit
Then
English
Belgium
Zealand
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Stephen Gardiner
Great
Architecture
Light
Detail
Delicacy
Misty
Very
Subtle
English
Soft
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
Stephen Greenblatt
Words
Language
First
Before
Astonishing
Out
Shakespeare
Volcano
Never
Had
First Of All
Him
Been
Eruption
Used
English
English Language
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Stephen Greenblatt
Love
Man
Language
Young
Shakespeare
Poetry
Remarkable
Perhaps
Know
Most
Wrote
Passionate
Passionate Love
Young Man
Body
English
English Language
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
Stephen Kinzer
Face
Difficulty
States
Having
Beyond
Foreign
Effects
Authors
Far
Translated
English
Many
Works
United
United States
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
Stephen Moyer
Sports
Kind
Never
Had
Boy
Lot
Up
Any
Regimen
English
Workout
Growing
Growing Up
Played
Marmite is my little English touch, and I'm crazy for chutneys.
Stephen Moyer
Crazy
Touch
Little
English
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
Stephen Rea
Politics
Matter
Wife
Assumption
Press
Over
Identical
Because
Been
Years
Years Ago
Worked
English
Her
I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.
Stephen Rea
Cinema
Films
Teenager
Saw
Hated
No Point
Point
Could
Absolutely
Had
Identification
American
Loved
Movies
Them
Much
English
Early
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
Steven Weinberg
Constitution
Before
Entails
Had
Nobility
Instruments
Inequality
American
Titles
English
Swept
Even
Away
Hereditary
Being English, we're polite and reserved, we don't express our opinions; we're very private people.
Steven Wilson
People
Our
Polite
Opinions
Private
Very
Being
English
Express
Reserved
If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.
Stromae
Music
Language
Dance
Feelings
Understanding
Nothing
Everybody
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Feel
Sure
Without
Same
Listen
Groove
English
Each
I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.
Sun Yat-sen
Mathematics
Science
Youth
Physics
Political
Chemistry
Hong Kong
Examinations
Had
Studies
Study
Kong
Passed
Geography
West
Overseas
Political Science
Experienced
Literature
Customs
Languages
English
Medical
Chance
Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'
Sung Kang
Life
Rest
Face
My Life
Drift
Like
Ready
Am
Kung
Kung Fu
Waiter
America
Chinese
Asian
Gonna
Speaks
English
Even
Play
All of us who are flying on international space stations speak some Russian and speak some English. Both the languages are needed to fly in a Russian spacecraft and communicate with your colleagues.
Sunita Williams
Communicate
Speak
Space
Fly
Flying
Stations
Colleagues
Some
Russian
Both
Spacecraft
Us
Your
Languages
English
Who
International
Needed
I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.
Susan Hill
Other
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Classic
Some
Only
Magnificent
He
Longer
Wrote
Well
Read
Traditional
Dickens
Very
Than
Short
Influences
James
Stories
Screw
Turn
English
Who
Henry
Henry James
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'
Susan Minot
Writing
School
Thought
College
Expectation
Back
Back To School
Backed
Background
Kind
Studied
Mostly
Because
Felt
Go
Graduate
Graduate School
Maybe
Wanted
Literary
Literature
English
English Literature
Gaps
Zero
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