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I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses. Ben Elliot
Favour Small Habit Tend Traditional English Businesses Creature
When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K. Ben Schnetzer
Work School Drama Drama School Admire Vocational Feel Felt Real Go Were Lot Trained Wanted Decided Realized Really English Whose Actor Careers
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. Bernard Pivot
Words Gender Difficulties Almost Almost All Speakers English
English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it. Bernardo Bertolucci
You Nothing Out Something More Like French Always Italian Just Literary Theatrical English Hemingway Need
I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns. Bethany Joy Lenz
Love Teacher France Would Towns Know Singer Housewife Around Still South Going Different Acting English English Teacher Travels
And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited. Betty Hill
Knowledge Leader Kidding Laughing See Some Joking Had He Along Although Limited Understood Walking English
I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap. Bill Bryson
People Entitled Wear Wrong Genetically Look Most Am Whereas Cap English English People Baseball
I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all. Bill Bryson
Time Me Wife Long Long Time Wish Every Changed Kids Adjust Abroad Voice Could Never Accent Accents Because Hear Just Intentionally Happened English Lived
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. Bill Condon
Black Through Maids Were Middle Hollywood English European
Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY. Billy Collins
You Appreciation Besides Aesthetic Fulfilled Teach Teaching English Basic Need
I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop. Billy Crystal
Teacher Day School Made Everything High High School Per Absent Junior Junior High Junior High School Office Same Shop Auto Taught Whenever Substitute English Sat
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. Bjork
You Birds Tell Mars Eat Come Well Sort Pigeons Ducks Them Might Sparrow English
In terms of moments that pushed me toward becoming a writer... My parents, my wife, and my English teacher in the 8th grade were all hugely supportive at moments during my development as a writer that were critical, where I might have quit when things got too hard. Blake Crouch
Teacher Me Wife Parents Too Critical Writer Pushed Development Toward Supportive Terms Becoming Got Were Hugely Grade Quit Where Might Hard English Moments English Teacher Things
The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English. Bobby Jindal
Generation Problem Face Consider France Immigrants Riots Countries French Still Demonstrate German Where Themselves English European European Countries Second Recent Third
My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise. Bobby Lashley
Good Family Mother Good Job Job Single Parent Spoke She Household Single Parent Were Up Get Grew Us Barely English Who Her Four Raise Panama
When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American. Brandon Flowers
Me People Thought First Out Touched Because Came Were Lot Very American Roots English Chord
All players, whether they're Spanish, French, English, Welsh, want to play football. To play. Brendan Rodgers
Football French Welsh Want Whether Spanish English Play Play Football Players
I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind. Brian Eno
Crime Think Station Claiming Kind Bad Some Above Risen Supposed Committed Artist Which Really Pop Pop Star English Star Suddenly
In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Reward Half Ali Despite Ring Physical Mental Facing Boundaries Involved Documentary Testing Subtitles Required Fighters Speaking English Toll Lives Nearly Speech
I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook. Bruce Bennett
Hungarian Both Outlook Part Feel Am Italian Very Upbringing Much English Europe Therefore Even Actually
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it. Bruce Springsteen
Good Writing Better School Else Classes Some Had Very While Much English
A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect. Bruno Maag
Good Perfect Like Looks Always Italian English Suit
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. Buzz Aldrin
Science Student Wrote Science Fiction Reports Fiction English
In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was. C. V. Raman
Me Class Old First Addressing Inquire Had He Attended Him Answer How Affirmative Junior Then Asked Really English Belonged
It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces. C. V. Raman
Work Good Great College Translation Possessed Student Well Well Known Great Work Known Masterpieces Still His Sensations While Fortune English Good Fortune Tone Copy
Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics. Cam Newton
Myself Good Speak Pretty Pretty Good Know Obviously Well How Am Spanish English
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