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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

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.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

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

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.