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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.


Diane Wakoski


#british #definitely #distinguish #english #english language

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.


Michel Hazanavicius


#any #beyond #coming #could #country

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.


Lafcadio Hearn


#english #english language #famous #great #james

My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care."


James Caan


#english #english language #favorite #i #language

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.


John McCarthy


#beautiful word #between #compulsory #contemporary #difference

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.


Michael Crawford


#care #compassion #did #difference #english

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.


John Clayton


#approximately #between #english #english language #jesus

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.


Michael Cunningham


#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.


John McGahern


#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.


James Thurber


#decline #english #english language #expression #fact






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