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When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American. — Brandon Flowers

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. — Daniel Alarcon

The Canadian dialect of English ... seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. — Lister Sinclair

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses. — Joely Richardson

I'm English, definitely. I don't feel like I'm American in any way. — Sienna Miller

The English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. — M. E. W. Sherwood

American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11 — Frans De Waal

American politicians do anything for money ... English politicians take the money and won't do anything. — Stephen Leacock

You can learn English online — Brian Daniel

You speak very good English for an American. — Nico

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. — Salvador De Madariaga

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. — Gore Vidal

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. — Eiza Gonzalez

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation. — Elizabeth McGovern

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good. — Daniel Craig

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality ... I'm South American - we celebrate life. — Mario Testino

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that. — Kurt Vonnegut

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. — Martin Amis

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English. — Yao Ming

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski

There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America. — Chaim Weizmann

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not? — Christopher Hitchens

I wish to understand [Plato], but to treat him with as little reverence as if he were a contemporary English or American advocate of totalitarianism. — Bertrand Russell

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy. — Finley Peter Dunne

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment. — Wally Schirra

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it. — Adam Cooper

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. — James Hunter

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. — Gerald Vizenor

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian. — Siri Hustvedt

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. — Stephanie Perkins

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. — Emmanuel Jal

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry. — Allegra Huston

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs. — Kola Boof

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke. — Vladimir Nabokov

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English. — Kate Del Castillo

His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft. — Peter Smith

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. — Roy Blount Jr.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. — Max Eastman