#english

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. ↗

— Lily Collins

#countryside #creating #english #english countryside #fairy

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#eighth #english #english language #just #language

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away! ↗

— Juan Manuel Fangio

#better #changed #english #everything #had

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? ↗

— Jackson Browne

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When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

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If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain. ↗

— Theresa May

#come #course #english #get #place

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#argue #called #career #english #entire

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.' ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English. ↗

— America Ferrera

#both #english #me #parents #siblings