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I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Always English Heard Just
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The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.

About Different English I Think
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

About American Bad Bad Guys
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

American Born English He
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Am Down English Friend
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

Better English First Foreign
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Capital English English Language Language
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Cold Detente English Fancy
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Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

Come Did English Feel
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

Controlled English Funk Got
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It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.
Any English Kind Listen
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I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

English Like Read Really
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

English Got Interested Learning
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

Beautiful China Cup Drink
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I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

Around Background Bit Blue
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.

Anyone Big Boy Could
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Because Before Brought English
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

Cannot English French Many
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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Also Being Brilliant British
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Armstrong Banjo English Ind
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The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

Also Always Bad Doing
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Command Drawing English EnglishLanguage
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
Does English Man Men
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On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.

American Bash Best Bit
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

Chords Cruel English Five
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

English Generalization Lack Material
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Banjo English English Language Heard
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

Call Dated English English People
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Class English English People Paradigm
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No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
English Feel Make People
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon Most beautiful Words
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Another Choice Combination English
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The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

Become Distortion Else English
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Artists Because Crowd Drama
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You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

English Heard Lover Never
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I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

Angeles English Film Going
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

Acting After Educating English
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Committed English Ever Explains
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Teach a child English, French, German, etc, that's very good. No knowledge is ever a waste. But flogging a child for speaking his or her own language is totally unacceptable. Teach them to appreciate their own. Don't treat them like wild animals for speaking their language.

Teach A child Very good Knowledge
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Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

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

Speak English Incapable Internet Regarded as
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It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.

Be thought Cowardly feeling Self preservation Innate
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Wen man no get money even e simple and correct English no dey correct for woman ear

Get money Simple Woman ear Get
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

No happiness In love The end
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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

English language Any sense Lackadaisical A shortage
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Unfortunately we have become accustomed to measuring people's intelligence by the way they speak English, which isn't right! Being able to communicate in more than one language is, to me, a measure of intellectual capacity.

Become accustomed Measuring People's intelligence Speak English
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Only in Nigeria will someone be asking for an English name for an indigenous food.

Will someone Be asking English name Indigenous food
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I can't count how any times I've been mocked for speaking Igbo with an English language.No wonder the language is dying. We refuse to allow our things evolve. We are too purist. Its stifles growth.

Been mocked For speaking Language Things evolve
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The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.

Expensive Words Time Different
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