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
WorldWhiteKnowFighterEnglish
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Vikas Swarup
LanguageWayWriteEnglishFreshness
Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.
Marianne Elliott
TimeAnimalsWantWildEnglishMost
In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.
Stephen Graham Jones
AmazingBuildingNeverOverEnglish
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
Utada Hikaru
WordsMeMeaningInspirationEnglish
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
Lev Grossman
MotherLiveThinkGotEnglishMust
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
Sofia Vergara
GoUnderstandWriteEnglishGo Away
I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.
Sadio Mane
FootballBarcelonaEnglishFanLots
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
Kenneth Branagh
ActingFirstEnglishUnderstoodJust
The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.
Tom Hopper
HumourFriendlyFansDryEnglish
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
Rabih Alameddine
HistorySpecialAlwaysSoftEnglish
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
Kevin Kwan
OutUpEnglishMerchantAccentPosh
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
Robert Fitzgerald
WillVocabularyEnglishFactOur
Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.
Pamela Druckerman
MeAmericanBackEnglishImmersed
The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
Julian Clary
DoorLivingNextEnglishJustLike
I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.
Robin Gibb
CountryHistoricalWhereEnglish
'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
Natsuo Kirino
BookChoiceFirstRealOutEnglish
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'
James Fenton
PainSayLaneLineStressedEnglish
I really like acting in English.
Romain Duris
ActingEnglishLikeReally
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Malcolm Bradbury
WorldEnglishLikeCodeMostRigid
I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen.
Howard Jacobson
ManDownLineLitEnglishStraight
I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
Mathias Rust
TeacherWordsHardCompanionEnglish
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Jack McDevitt
ReadingTryingPassionateEnglish
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.
Gilbert Murray
StyleWordsNormalOriginalEnglish
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