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I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

~Diego Luna

Topics: Always Characters Different Different Characters English Going Work Working I Can

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I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

~Diego Maradona

Topics: About Always Bad Bad Boy Boy Cup English English Football Football Go Just Like People Real Seen Then World World Cup

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When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.

~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Topics: Because Been Children Difficult East English Father Germany Going Had Impossible Learn Leave Me Now Orientation Overnight Political Required Russian School Time Turned Were West Which

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I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

~Dikembe Mutombo

Topics: Any Basketball Court Cross English Even Just Language Mind Never Other Playing Reason Some Speak Tried

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Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

~Dizzy Dean

Topics: Baseball Eating English Lot People Say States Teach Teachers United United States Who Will

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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

~Donald Barthelme

Topics: Architecture Drama English Father Great Influence Mother Pennsylvania She Sort Studied University Ways Where Wicked Wit

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A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Acquainted Best Century Cooking Depths English Fellowship Good London Me Oxford Paris Restaurants 1950S

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I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet. Two days later, I got a call from Lord Harewood, of the English National Opera, saying "Would you like to be in 'Ariadne auf Naxos?'"

~Donald Sinden

Topics: Ballet Been Call Days English Got Interview Later Like Lord National Once Only Opera Remember Saying Television Things Two Were Would You I Remember

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My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up.

~Doona Bae

Topics: Abroad Dangerous English Favorite Gave Go Kid Mom Said Study Subject Too Up Wanted Young Yourself

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Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Characters English Excellence Find Friends Just Language Lives Poor Praise Shines Should Speak Too Which

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