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The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. Susan Stewart
Lyric Poetry Shape Like Greater Commentary Itself Romantic Lends Length English
You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees. Susanna Clarke
Nature You Feeling Down Trees Elusive Possible Would Would-Be Vanishes Shadow Fairy Becomes Welsh Pin German Very Irish Scottish Get Just English
I studied English in college and approached filmmaking from a writing background while trying to learn as much as I could about the technical side of things by making shorts and a webseries. Susanna Fogel
Writing College Side Background About Could Studied Learn Making Trying While Shorts Much English Technical Things Filmmaking
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. Susanne Bier
Listening Understanding Way Feel Sort Issue Any English
I love American English, not least because a lot of it was ours to begin with. Indeed, many Americanisms can be found in the works of William Shakespeare. Susie Dent
Love Indeed William Ours Shakespeare Because Least Lot Begin American English Many Works Found
From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered. Susie Dent
Words Every Absorb Encountered Happily English Start Tongue
Bizarrely, our English word 'sturdy' may go back to the Latin turdus, thrush. Anyone described as 'sturdy' in the 1200s was wilfully reckless and possibly as immovable as a sozzled bird. Susie Dent
Word Bird Back Our Reckless Latin Possibly Immovable Go May Anyone English
The notion of 'Queen's English' is usually applied to our pronunciation. Susie Dent
Queen Our Notion English Applied
New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat rooms, TV, etc. Susie Dent
Today Travel Words Language Thanks Increasing Way TV Rapidly Rate Variety Chat Over New Another Etc Rooms English
After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name. Suzi Quatro
Together Recording Band Few Keyboard Some Only Had Name Years Replacement Did Quite Just After Formed Moving England English Eventually
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in. Suzy Menkes
Fashion Joy Clothes Think Bit Eccentricity Thrown Look Them English Fun Expression
My master's degree was in English literature. Sylvia Browne
Degree Master Literature English English Literature
I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience. Sylvia Hoeks
Love Experience Speak Those French German American Dutch American Experience Acted Languages English
That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know. Talib Kweli
You Beat Put Know Hip-Hop English Sociology
Sciences were not my favourite subjects at school. I preferred English, drama, music, and history. Tamzin Outhwaite
Music History School Drama Favourite Sciences Were Subjects Preferred English
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. Taylor Momsen
Writing Enjoy Classes Poetry Really English
My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. Ted Cruz
Generation World Teenager Immigrants Find He Cuba Came Lot Up Grew Which Themselves Speaking English Dad Second Here
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' Terry Pratchett
You Men Three Every Think Liberal Humour Punch Must Find Something Voice Picked True Like Fairly Read Issue Up Process Which Boat Century English Amiable Published
Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the only Asian kid in my elementary school, and I longed to be like everyone else. I insisted on American food; I was embarrassed by my mother's poor English. Tess Gerritsen
Life Food School Mother My Life Heritage Else Everyone Everyone Else Kid Embarrassed Tried Insisted Only Throughout Like Most Because American Wanted Chinese Asian Poor Much English Downplay Elementary Elementary School
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable. Theodore Zeldin
You Yourself People Reputation Humour Relationships Way Superficial Vulnerable Without Revealing Making Which Themselves Engage Avoid English
If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain. Theresa May
You Speak Proper Study Come Course Get Place English Britain University
You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language? Theresa May
You Challenges People Speak School Language Face Country Half Build Relationships Neighbours See London Only School Children Almost Primary Primary School Fair Look How Same Where Children Anyone English Even Now Second
I love watching English football. It's the league I most enjoy. Thiago Alcantara
Love Enjoy Football League Most English English Football Watching
The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot. Thierry Henry
Work You Game Will Club Cricket Later Follow Darts Only Take Foot Sooner Footballers Sooner Or Later Smash Days Like Know Ball How Test Go Lot Off End Up Trying The Only Thing Golf Really Requires English Play Thing Four Watch
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Alone Bible Book Language Power Beauty Else Our Everything Everything Else Would Perish Which Should Show English Whole Suffice Extent
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. Thomas Erskine
Justice Constitution Integrity Dignity Valuable Will Independence Impartial Hazards Part Most Without Existence Which Bar English Assert Ever
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