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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

~A. E. Van Vogt

Topics: Break Difficult English English Language Feel Interesting Language Me Mine Page Paragraphs Perhaps Should Solid Sooner Terms Than Up Usage Without

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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

~A. James Clark

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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

~A. N. Wilson

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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Also Ants Chaos English English Literature Literature Only Theory Understand Write I Can

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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

~A. S. Byatt

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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

~Aaron Johnson

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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

~Aaron Lazar

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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

~Aaron Swartz

Topics: Book Cultural English Even Every Held Important Key Legacy Library Our Part Planet Sale Simply What If Which

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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: Actor Adulthood American Been Born England English Feel Grew Helps Indian Inform Inside Kind Like Me Mumbai Person Some States Stuffed Then Things Think Those Up Way Which I Think I Feel I Feel Like I Was Born

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