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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
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language. -- Shreya Ghoshal
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. -- Amin Maalouf
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension. -- Rachel Cusk
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things. -- Tom Wlaschiha
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life. -- Bryn Terfel
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. -- John Brown
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. -- George W. Bush
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. -- Trevor Noah
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
[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. -- Mother Teresa
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. -- Gabrielle Roth

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