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I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.

~Denis Villeneuve

Topics: Asked Because Before Direct Enemy English Going Had Hollywood Made Make Me Movie Myself Need Prep Prisoners Right Smaller Sold Something Warner Way

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When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or the actors. When I work in English or French, the music of the language is different, but beyond that music, in the depths, it's the same.

~Denis Villeneuve

Topics: Actor Beyond Big Big Difference Depths Difference Different English French Language Music Rapport Same Say See Team Work

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It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.

~Dennis Bergkamp

Topics: Arsenal Club Committing English English Football Fantastic Football Got Lot Talent Themselves Well You Young

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I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

~Dennis Haysbert

Topics: Amount Basketball Believe Classes Did English Fair Fair Amount Football Got Guys Little Looks Me Our Play Play Football Played Plays Season Shakespeare Team Term Theater Versions You

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President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

~Dennis Miller

Topics: Address Both Bush English Figure Gave His However Mixed Out People President President Bush Presidential Radio Reaction Spanish Trying Were Which

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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

Topics: English English Language Imagination Itself Language Nobody Property Special

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There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Aspect Compelling Corner Deserving English His Hughes Intimacy Introduced Kind Landscape More Most Nature New New Kind Place Poetry Poets Ted Work

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I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island - French, Creole, and English - but my education is in English.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Bilingual Caribbean Education English French Island Lesser Lower Part Which

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I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: English Felt Greatest Never Poets Trying Well Write

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For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

~Diana Nyad

Topics: Accomplish Been Channel Done English Feat Generations Previous Swimming

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