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I know for a fact if I were a white English fighter, maybe I would have been a superstar in Britain - and the world.
Amir Khan
World
White
Fighter
Would
Superstar
Fact
Know
Were
Been
Maybe
English
Britain
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.
Amitabh Bachchan
Father
Poet
Country
Giant
Harvard
Prominent
Writes
He
Most
Also
Hindi
Because
Quite
Taught
Literary
Literature
Which
English
English Literature
Unique
Universities
University
For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that all the cows in India look the same and have identical horns.
Amitava Kumar
Saying
Me
Say
Alike
Bit
Would
Would-Be
India
Indians
Horns
Written
Like
Look
Identical
Cows
Same
English
Novels
While I was doing Hindi, people there laughed at me because I couldn't speak Hindi and English properly.
Amruta Khanvilkar
Me
People
Speak
Laughed
Properly
Hindi
Because
Doing
While
English
I use this method to bring emotion into my performance. I recite my lines in English first, and then switch back to the original lines when shooting begins.
Amy Jackson
First
Back
Recite
Emotion
Performance
Method
Lines
Begins
Shooting
Then
Use
English
Original
Switch
Bring
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
Amy Tan
People
Mother
Argument
Think
She
Because
Understand
Got
Chinese
Used
English
Her
Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.
Amy Tan
Sad
Me
Age
Speak
Parents
Fluency
Later
Adult
Spoke
Combination
Until
Retrospect
Well
Force
Learn
Because
Doing
Five
America
Wanted
Chinese
English
Believed
Chance
Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?
Ana Navarro
People
Speak
Liberal
Latin
Those
Immigrant
Would
Accent
Because
Am
Hispanic
Discriminate
Forget
Get
Want
Against
Us
English
Who
Why
Defend
When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn't speak English at the time, but I did say, 'I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.' So I got very excited to play opposite him.
Ana de Armas
Time
Me
Woman
Speak
First
Meeting
Say
Had
Excited
Him
Got
Opposite
Very
Did
Moved
Wanna
Wanted
Agents
Asked
English
Play
Career
By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.
Andrea Barrett
Teacher
Class
Writing
School
Year
Think
Out
High
Would
Fabulous
High School
Horrible
Someday
Something
Student
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Although
Go
Junior
Junior High
Did
Just
Afterwards
Might
Then
Skip
English
English Teacher
Her
Actually
Started
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Andrew Fletcher
Men
Advice
Our
Ministers
Would
Would-Be
Kingdom
Crowns
Knew
Since
Principal
Court
Affairs
Been
Offices
Subservient
England
English
Union
Filled
Designs
The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj: after all, we were British, well-educated, reasonably cultivated and spoke with clear, classless accents.
Andrew Neil
Minded
London
Rise
Outside
Never
Clear
Spoke
Accents
Well-Educated
Were
Cultivated
Bunch
Scottish
After
Much
English
Reasonably
Tolerant
Elements
Elite
British
No one has ever doubted Kevin Pietersen's abilities as a player, he has been a phenomenal player for England for a long period of time, his record stacks up to anyone's in English cricket and he should be very proud of his record.
Andrew Strauss
Time
Long
Cricket
Has-Been
Ability
Record
Long Period
No-One
He
Period
Proud
Been
His
Up
Very
Anyone
Should
Doubted
England
English
Ever
Player
Phenomenal
Kevin
We've always got to look for opportunities for our English coaches to get more experience than just doing county coaching gigs. They need to do more than that if they're going to be viable candidates for England jobs going forward.
Andrew Strauss
Experience
Opportunities
Our
Jobs
Gigs
More
Look
County
Always
Got
Doing
Than
Get
Viable
Going
Candidates
Just
Coaches
Coaching
England
English
Forward
Need
My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
Andy Murray
Fitness
People
Problem
Some
Friends
Trainer
English
English People
Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
Andy Partridge
Settlement
Tour
Had
Head
Come
Want
English
Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.
Andy Taylor
You
Those
Drink
Soon
Days
Know
Stick
Go
Were
Gets
Used
English
Thing
I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.
Angela Bassett
You
People
Will
King
Impress
Negatively
Back
Out
Give
Only
Both
Take
Knowing
Because
Going
Hold
Them
Then
English
Street
People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.
Anita Brookner
Me
People
Sometimes
Complacent
Say
Maddening
People Say
Seems
Never
Ineffable
Always
Am
Which
Depressing
English
Serious
People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.
Anitta
Music
Me
People
Language
Other
Took
Tried
Classes
More
Studied
Sing
Singers
Learned
Another
Course
How
Lot
Getting
Listened
Spanish
Them
Used
English
Helps
When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.
Ann Hood
Day
Eyes
Writing
World
Stars
Every
Hoped
Would
City
See
Some
Attendant
Adventures
Began
Wanted
Fuel
Flight
English
Her
Career
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
Anne Carson
Me
Think
Imitate
Way
Say
About
Something
Poets
Push
Towards
Attracts
Always
Metaphor
Density
Greek
Trying
Really
Use
English
The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.
Anouska Hempel
Love
Day
Garden
Yourself
People
Country
Looking
Building
Every
Secrecy
Carpet
Admire
Both
Most
Venice
Also
Houses
Isolate
Which
English
Connect
Resembles
Bridges
Floating
Gardens
Palace
Palaces
Night
I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.
Anthony Doerr
History
Science
Writing
College
Master
Studied
Sort
Always
Got
English
There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
Anthony Horowitz
You
Strange
Stay
About
Something
Schoolboy
Read
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Very
Forever
Stories
Holmes
English
I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.
Anthony Marra
Single
Find
Could
Written
Chechnya
Most
Period
Read
Nonfiction
While
English
Wars
Novel
Searching
Recent
Two
Set
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