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I'm rarely singing in English.
Renee Fleming

Singing, Rarely

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
Sofia Vergara

Understand, Away, Write

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.
Andy Taylor

Used, Days, Drink

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.
Seth Rogen

Someone, High, Next

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
Olivier Martinez

Work, Thought, Strange

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
Robert Rodriguez

Children, Country, Find

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
Kate Clinton

Teacher, Friend, Said

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
Guy Ritchie

Time, Beautiful, Everything

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!
Helmut Jahn

Work, Place, While

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.
Kenneth Branagh

Love, Fire, Mean

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of Arc

Love, God, Nothing

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
Andy Murray

Fitness, Friends, Problem

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.
Andy Serkis

Age, Time, Done

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman

Education, Through, Point

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.
Tony Dungy

Teacher, Mom, Book

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.
Tony Dungy

Teacher, Mother, Someone

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
Gloria Swanson

Picture, Talking, Press

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
Edward Bond

Punishment, Abroad, Empire

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

Work, Old, Start

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
John Gielgud

Doubt, Put, Speak

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
Anna Held

Speak, Cute, Tongue

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
Robert Morgan

Great, Poetry, Modern

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
Conrad Black

Good, Difficult, Countries

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Stephen Gardiner

Great, Light, Soft

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
Colin Quinn

Reason, Impression, Witty

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
Jeremy Paxman

Die, Ideas, Neglect

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
Oliver Kahn

Leave, Trouble, Soon

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li

Time, Learning, Today

And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.
Thierry Henry

End, Trying, Play

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
Minnie Driver

Playing, Step, Actress

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