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In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
Cyril Cusack
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Booker T. Washington
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
Zhang Yimou 
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott
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I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.
Aishwarya Rai
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
Stephen Fry
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In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
Wim Wenders
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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
John McCarthy
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
Lafcadio Hearn
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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.
John Philip Sousa
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Jack Prelutsky
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
Bill Condon
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