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There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Neville Marriner

English

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.

Penelope Lively

History

English

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Lucy Liu

English

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

John Walker Lindh

English

Months

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

Jonathan Lethem

English

Writing

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Mario Lemieux

English

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.