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I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola
Films
Monty
Kid
Monty Python
Python
Huge
Up
Fanatic
Loving
English
Grown
Grown-Up
Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.
Alex Kingston
Time
People
Every
Every Time
Driver
Reminded
Know
Most
Catherine
Welsh
American
English
Shown
Even
Dr
British
I think, for the English accent, we don't say our Rs, contrary to a standard American accent.
Alex Roe
Think
Our
Say
Accent
Contrary
American
American Accent
Standard
English
I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
Alex Sharp
Good
Struggle
Science
Theatre
Hooked
Gifted
Bad
Academically
Became
Been
Maths
Literature
Might
English
English Literature
By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
Alexander Chee
War
Peace
Russian
Both
French
Read
Were
Began
American
Available
Translations
English
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
Alexander Herzen
Possible
Would
Triumphant
More
Parliament
Houses
Spot
Still
Than
Done
While
Stand
English
Forward
March
Two
I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that.
Alexandre Pato
You
Problem
Tough
Think
Would
Would-Be
Physical
Football
Part
Like
Ball
Ready
Very
Get
English
English Football
Here
Need
Defenders
Ever since I started watching Premier League, I found English football very appealing.
Alexis Sanchez
Football
Since
League
Very
Premier
Premier League
English
English Football
Appealing
Found
Ever
Started
Watching
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
Alfred de Musset
Cause
Understand
Always
Sensation
English
Among
Things
Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'
Ali Smith
Great
Me
Old
Word
Sky
Country
Clever
Trees
Back
Circles
Tops
About
Myriad
How
Covered
Provide
Forests
Get
Meant
English
Creatures
Homes
Inner
Started
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
Alice Morse Earle
Women
Too
Unknown
Plentiful
Though
Colonial
Records
Habit
Shape
Annoying
Learn
Scold
Were
America
Irritating
Far
English
Bridle
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.
Alice Oswald
Life
You
Writing
Relax
Nothing
Rage
Complacency
Kicks
Relaxing
About
Poem
Area
Head
Like
Particularly
Friction
Lot
Afford
Any
Senses
Means
Your
English
Awake
Keep
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker
Tea
Picnic
Indoors
Really
English
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
Alison Goldfrapp
Music
Folk
Folk Music
Much
Really
English
Appealing
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
Alison Moyet
Soul
Singing
Style
Torture
Vocalist
More
Fact
Major
Dealing
Always
Been
Led
Referred
Led Zeppelin
Labels
Fitzgerald
Than
Closer
Blues
Influenced
Shouting
English
Zeppelin
Ella
Ella Fitzgerald
I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?'
Alison Moyet
Me
You
Remember
School
Young
Would
He
Head
Said
Yeah
Audition
Going
Oh
Oh Yeah
Want
Wanted
Asked
Act
English
Why
I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.
Alison Owen
You
College
Way
London
Read
Narrative
Go
Were
Story
Literature
Realised
Interested
Then
English
English Literature
Film
University
Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.
Alistair Horne
Character
London
Weekly
Write
She
Housewife
Times
Article
Commissioned
Ordinary
Created
English
When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.
Allegra Huston
Family
Me
Tired
Age
People
Met
Sister
Own
Live
Other
Claimed
Brother
Brother And Sister
London
My Own
Instantly
Houses
Around
Ready
Moved
English
Who
Shuffle
I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.
Allegra Huston
Character
Me
People
Space
Feeling
Sense
Other
Seemed
Self
Outsider
Supporting
Also
Occupied
Comforted
Dogged
Been
Familiar
American
Where
Which
Should
England
English
Lives
Right
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
Ally Condie
Teacher
Time
Good
Guitar
Husband
Economics
Met
Side
Analytical
Addition
One Of The Things
About
Poetry
He
Stuff
Liked
Wrote
Him
Always
Go
His
Mathematical
Lots
Very
Decided
English
English Teacher
Things
Played
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!
Alma Gluck
Simple
Old
Control
Lyric
Complete
Charming
Voice
Student
Take
Songs
Safe
How
Repertoire
Up
Etc
English
Her
English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.
Alvaro Morata
Time
You
Relax
Fire
Calm
Down
Football
Because
Calm Down
Ball
Italy
Different
Spain
Much
English
English Football
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
Amanda Hocking
Class
Writing
School
College
Community
Every
Took
Local
Out
High
Classes
High School
Had
Taken
Attended
Dropped
Also
Years
Years Ago
Available
Community College
English
Workshop
Two
I felt very motivated to release some things in English because I wanna represent my community.
Amber Liu
Community
Release
Some
Some Things
Because
Felt
Motivated
Very
Represent
Wanna
English
Things
It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!
Amelia Warner
Love
Day
Crazy
Hate
Wild
Liberal
Everyone
Spend
Everything
Say
Weird
Like
Were
Place
Choice
English
Thinks
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