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English Quotes

I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I’m not really star struck by actors, but musicians, that’s when I get star struck. Chad Smith is my number one drum influence, so that was a real mind-blow. I spoke to him - proper English, thank God! Picture Quote #1

My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I’ve even said a word. They somehow know that I’m not quite Chinese enough Picture Quote #1

I’m an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it’s quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I’m forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that’s how I avoided pastiche Picture Quote #1

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old Picture Quote #1

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. ~ (1925- ), English political leader Picture Quote #1

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!’ Picture Quote #1

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Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n’ roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard Picture Quote #1

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. ‘Can Helen Stop Smoking’ was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit Picture Quote #1

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we’ve just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media Picture Quote #1

When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up Picture Quote #1

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized Picture Quote #1

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school Picture Quote #1

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People didn’t know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing Picture Quote #1

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, ‘I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.’ I wouldn’t have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn’t a clever man Picture Quote #1

When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in Picture Quote #1

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak Picture Quote #1

The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night! Picture Quote #1

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it - cold war Picture Quote #1

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For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie Picture Quote #1

I took English courses in college, but I don’t have an English degree. I have a degree in economics Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’d been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war Picture Quote #1

The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students’ grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it Picture Quote #1

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college Picture Quote #1

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I’m so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I’m like an English boy going to an American college. I’m thinking cheerleaders, I’m thinking kegs. That’s not what’s on the cards Picture Quote #1

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college Picture Quote #1

During the 1980s, when Japan’s economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like ‘Japan is Number One,’ most Japanese college students didn’t make the effort to become fluent in English Picture Quote #1

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view Picture Quote #1

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it’s a very dominant trait Picture Quote #1

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield’s comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield Picture Quote #1

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I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I’m not really star struck by actors, but musicians, that’s when I get star struck. Chad Smith is my number one drum influence, so that was a real mind-blow. I spoke to him - proper English, thank God! (English Quotes) My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I’ve even said a word. They somehow know that I’m not quite Chinese enough. (English Quotes) I’m an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it’s quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I’m forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that’s how I avoided pastiche. (English Quotes) My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old. (English Quotes) Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. ~ (1925- ), English political leader. (English Quotes) 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!’ (English Quotes) Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n’ roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard. (English Quotes) I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. ‘Can Helen Stop Smoking’ was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit. (English Quotes) One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we’ve just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. (English Quotes) When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up. (English Quotes) If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. (English Quotes) We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school. (English Quotes) People didn’t know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing. (English Quotes) When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, ‘I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.’ I wouldn’t have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn’t a clever man. (English Quotes) When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in. (English Quotes) Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak. (English Quotes) The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night! (English Quotes) I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it - cold war. (English Quotes) For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie. (English Quotes) I took English courses in college, but I don’t have an English degree. I have a degree in economics. (English Quotes) 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. (English Quotes) I’d been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. (English Quotes) The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students’ grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it. (English Quotes) I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college (English Quotes) I’m so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I’m like an English boy going to an American college. I’m thinking cheerleaders, I’m thinking kegs. That’s not what’s on the cards. (English Quotes) I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college. (English Quotes) During the 1980s, when Japan’s economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like ‘Japan is Number One,’ most Japanese college students didn’t make the effort to become fluent in English. (English Quotes) My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view. (English Quotes) Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it’s a very dominant trait. (English Quotes) Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield’s comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. (English Quotes)

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