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#english literature

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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.


Natalie Massenet


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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.


Russell Baker


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I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.


Jeffrey Eugenides


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Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.


Henry Louis Gates


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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.


Andrea Mitchell


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In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.


Trevor Nunn


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I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.


Ellen Ochoa


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My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.


Bernie Taupin


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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.


Lafcadio Hearn


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My master's degree was in English literature.


Sylvia Browne


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