#english

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#closer #common #connection #different #different people

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#english #here #heritage #i #proud

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#english #i #i came #pittsburgh #speak

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#english #fantastic #kind #summit #translation

When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?' ↗

— Damian Lewis

#all day #america #american #american accent #comes

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#dichotomy #english #front #gone #great

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different. ↗

— Bai Ling

#china #culture #different #different places #english

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#did #english #english major #go #i

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#going #see #shakespearean #sopranos #speaking

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#both #ears #english #few #matters