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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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