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Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course. -- John Gielgud
I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics. -- Patrick Carman
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. -- Jennifer Weiner
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. -- Max von Sydow
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
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. -- Joan Collins
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern. -- Peter Ackroyd
I'd love to have been in things like 'The Jewel in the Crown,' but of course they're terribly old English. I can do that. But I'm not that. -- Julia McKenzie
Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor. -- Edward P. Jones
I'd love to be a part of 'Star Wars.' I'd be a Sith, of course - I'm English! We've got the voice, and it's perfect for the bad guys. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!' -- Janet Montgomery
First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
I did everything in my power not to be an actress. I went off and did a teacher-training course first, so I could teach English and Drama - because I'm not thick, surprisingly enough. -- Sarah Douglas
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. -- Patricia Ireland
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. -- Lytton Strachey
Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India. -- Ismail Merchant
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. -- David McCullough
There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't. -- Rowan Atkinson
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
I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses. -- Todd English
Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English. -- Mark Dery
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. -- George Mikes
The most common double-letter pairing in the English language being the double L, of course, challenged only by the double T." -- Christa Faust
The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley; -- David Mitchell
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor -- Max von Sydow
A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE! -- Kate Fox
In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "prÃ©man", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English. -- Joshua Oppenheimer
There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about. -- E. B. White
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course. -- Ralph Barton Perry
What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe. -- Andrew Roberts

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