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During the 20th century, Chechnya was written about by local poets and novelists, as well as writers from Russia and Central Asia, but very little is available in English translation.
Anthony Marra
Translation
Local
About
Russia
Poets
Writers
Written
Chechnya
Well
Very
Central
Available
Little
Asia
Century
English
Novelists
No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
Anthony Minghella
You
Patient
Cold
Out
Tells
No-One
Studio
None
Ambitious
Mountain
Wanted
Hollywood
Really
English
Appetite
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Anthony Trollope
Happiness
Love
Except
End
English
Novel
Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.
Antonio Munoz Molina
Shakespeare
Permanent
English
Letters
Presence
I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
Antonya Nelson
Family
People
Parents
Every
State
Summer
State University
Summers
Hung
Out
Born
More
Colorado
Since
Most
Returned
Were
Off
Up
Than
Where
Grew
English
Who
Professors
University
I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.
Antonya Nelson
You
Natural
People
Sometimes
Three
Parents
Become
Sister
Else
Say
Would
Exact
People Say
Brothers
Brought
Only
Writer
No-One
Household
Became
Were
Up
Child
Same
Your
English
Professor
Professors
Four
Third
Sibling
I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.
Ariel Dorfman
Me
Sense
Latino
Mixed
South
North
Spanish
English
Mongrel
Things
Jewish
I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.
Arijit Singh
Reading
Books
Bengali
Fond
Like
Read
Am
Short
Stories
Short Stories
English
Connect
Novels
I always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old.
Armaan Malik
Old
Songs
Since
Like
Sing
Always
Years
Wanted
English
Ever
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Me
You
Speak
Parents
Country
Born
Like
Until
Make
Were
Any
Difference
Where
Your
English
Who
Twenties
Even
English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.
Arsene Wenger
Best
Problem
World
Enough
Easy
Born
League
Very
Them
Coach
Working
Hard
Premier
Premier League
England
English
Players
This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
Arthur Golden
Character
Woman
Book
Herself
Recognize
About
Entirely
Invented
She
Read
Because
Anything
Which
Really
English
California is the highest-tax state in the nation and has been for a long time. It has the highest-paid teachers in the nation, by far - $400 a month more than New Jersey - and yet California is the third lowest state on test scores for fourth and eighth grade English and math in the nation, and has been at the low level for a long, long time.
Arthur Laffer
Time
Long
Long Time
Nation
State
Month
Has-Been
More
New
California
New Jersey
Test
Test Scores
Been
Math
Scores
Than
Grade
Eighth
Eighth Grade
Low
Far
Lowest
Teachers
English
Jersey
Level
Fourth
Third
Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Life
Art
Me
You
Will
Gentleman
Painting
Believe
Indeed
Tell
All Your Life
Admit
Having
Write
He
Prose
Spoken
Bourgeois
Knowing
Well
Without
Very
Sir
Oh
Whereas
Anyone
Either
Your
Special
English
Nay
The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Alone
Business
Learning
Impossible
Word
Reading
Sense
Write
Know
Years
Any
Short
Literature
Reputable
Your
English
English Literature
Whole
Two
When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made a small documentary, they first thought of having a voiceover for me. The producer liked my English so much, he said they were retaining my original voice.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Me
Speak
Thought
Made
First
Humorous
Way
Impact
Having
Small
Voice
Voiceover
Retaining
He
Liked
Documentary
Said
Were
Subject
Bigger
Informal
Much
Producer
English
Original
Serious
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.
Ashley Tisdale
Life
Good
Creative
Writing
Favorite
Magazine
Poems
Making
Subject
Friend
Celebrities
Celebrity
Did
English
Creative Writing
Good Friend
I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
Ashwin Sanghi
Editing
Words
School
Old
Language
Added
Evolving
Constantly
See
Only
Purity
Part
Feel
New
Am
Dictionary
Improved
Any
Being
Where
Experimenting
Poor
Should
Old School
Standards
English
Need
Harm
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
Austin Butler
Love
Girl
Find
Girlfriend
Adore
Could
Accents
Knows
Different
English
Who
Travels
British
Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.
Austin Clarke
Work
Music
Great
Sense
Eloquence
Lyrical
Lyrics
Later
Claim
Tried
Critics
Occasion
Him
Least
Tradition
His
Heard
Yeats
Close
Closely
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Regarded
Which
Century
Epoch
English
Found
Brings
Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
Austin Clarke
Constitution
Slow
Poetry
Exchange
Itself
Reform
English
British
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.
Azar Nafisi
Degree
Finally
Stayed
Returned
Islamic
Islamic Republic
Got
Years
Iran
American
Literature
Republic
American Literature
English
I learned how to speak English watching television.
Azita Ghanizada
Speak
Television
Learned
How
English
Watching
Watching Television
My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.
Bam Margera
Funny
You
Uncle
TV
Voice
He
Him
Because
Understand
Always
Dude
Just
Subtitles
Craziest
Really
Barely
Speaks
English
Watch
Fat
Need
My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
Bella Thorne
Work
You
People
Speak
School
Language
Father
First
Latina
Only
Had
Know
Most
Cuban
Because
Proud
Am
Anymore
Dyslexia
Spanish
Much
English
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
Ben Elliot
Food
Long
Spent
Out
Pretty
Eating
Having
Obsession
Schools
Partly
Years
List
Where
Boarding
Low
English
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