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Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Adult Age America Because Believed Chance Chinese Combination Doing English Five Fluency Force Later Learn Me Parents Retrospect Sad Speak Spoke Until Wanted Well

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Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth!

~Ana Beatriz Barros

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When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn't speak English at the time, but I did say, 'I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.' So I got very excited to play opposite him.

~Ana De Armas

Topics: Agents Asked Career Did English Excited First Got Had Him Me Meeting Moved Opposite Play Say Speak Time Very Wanna Wanted Woman Ryan

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It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.

~Ana De La Reguera

Topics: About Act Anymore Becomes Easier Easy English Get Going Heart Hour Just Know Language Learn Lines Me Minutes More Really Soon Spanish Take Takes Them Time Worry You I Can

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Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?

~Ana Navarro

Topics: Accent Against Am Because Defend Discriminate English Forget Get Hispanic Immigrant Latin Liberal People Speak Those Us Want Who Why Would

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I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

~Anchee Min

Topics: Become Dream English Far Get Learn Never Sesame Sesame Street Started Street Understood Watching Without Would

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I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

~Andre Aciman

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By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

~Andrea Barrett

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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

~Andrea Mitchell

Topics: About Arts Broadcasting College English English Literature Entered Exploits Fell Liberal Liberal Arts Literature Love Other Pennsylvania People Stories Studied Study Telling University

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My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in English, sort of like what happens on 'Jane.'

~Andrea Navedo

Topics: Bilingual English Everyone Grandmother Happens Home Jane Like Preferred She Sort Spanish Speak Us Would

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