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From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

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In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

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The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves.

~Alec Baldwin

Topics: About Any English Humor Like Perhaps Place Sense Sense Of Humor Theater Themselves Wealthy Where

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When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Adjust Also Become Came Cold English Fluent Having London Remember School Very I Remember I Came

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Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud of is having totally evolved. I came here not knowing how to speak English, but I went to school and learned; I adapted to this new culture.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Adapted Arrived Born Came Civil Civil War Culture English Evolved Having Here How Knowing Learned London Most New Not Knowing Proud Refuge School Seek Speak Sudan Thing Totally War Where I Came I Was Born

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I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: After Could English Everything Find Got Graduate Graduate School Hemingway Henry How Important James Literary Magazine Pieces Published Read Really School Seem Started Them Then Twain Very While Writing

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I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.

~Alessandro Michele

Topics: Aesthetic Beautiful Chaos Close English Feel Love Mix My Own Own Past Powerful Present Way I Love I Feel

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I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

~Alessandro Nivola

Topics: English Fanatic Films Grown Huge Kid Loving Monty Monty Python Python Up

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I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.

~Alethea Kontis

Topics: Anything Ask Circle Course English Forced Grandmother Impromptu Ketchup Little Math Mcdonald More More Than Anything Performed Plays Sewing Sister Than Wanted Who World Writer

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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

~Alex Cox

Topics: Dose English English Language Everybody Fairly Gets Greatest He His Language Little Playwright Politics Shakespeare Square

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