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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

Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning. — Aleksandr Voinov

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. — Mary Quant

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. — Tom Stoppard

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that. — Phil Collins

I'm not very good at standard English. — James Nesbitt

The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English. — Prince Royce

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. — Tom Hooper

Americans were most likely good people ... the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly. — Anne Holm

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors. — Todd English

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive. — Edmund Wilson

When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it. — Kapil Dev

I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well. — Emerson Fittipaldi

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America. — Kelly Osbourne

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

My English is very bad. — Vladimir Putin

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive. — C. Wright Mills

I've always felt very English. — David Hockney

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. — Anthony Trollope

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school. — Mamata Banerjee

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English. — Dave Barry

You speak very good English for an American. — Nico

We are very like the English, - are, in fact, English under a different sky. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that. — Lou Doillon

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be. — Martha Gellhorn

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English. — Ben Jonson

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural. — Ha Jin

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. — Otto Hahn

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking. — Sam Claflin

Fuckyou-ish?" "The English dialect of the ancient language 'fuckyou.' Very old. Dignified even. — Celia Kyle

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer. — Per Petterson

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. — Stephen Gardiner

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking. — Elizabeth David

In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. — Bertrand Barere

He repeated the words dutifully, and then put together his very first sentence in elegant King's English. "Cut...fuck...Bil-lee. — Mark Wildyr

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. — Martin Cruz Smith

Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try different soaps all the time, but I use very mild ones. — Marie Helvin

center. He said no. He said, in very fine English, 'I buy, I don't sell.' Then he escorted me out. But I think that was Tran. Something about him. — Michael Connelly

The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm. — Lady Gregory

Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel...A Very English Affair) — Faith Mortimer

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. — George Bernard Shaw

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. — David Bowie

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English. — Hiroyuki Sanada

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. — John Green

My English is not very good-looking. — Celia Cruz

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American. — Barry Eisler

I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends. — Claire Tomalin

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly. — Marcus Mumford

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain. — Charlie Cox

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough

Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?
- A very lost Marcus Brody — Rob MacGregor

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie ... in the shower. — Bob Hope

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject. — Patricia Duncker

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English. — Elsa Peretti

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak. — Maureen Johnson

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family."
"Very boring, Emerson. — Elizabeth Peters

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it. — Malcolm Muggeridge

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure. — Daniel Radcliffe

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! — Leonard Cohen

Nothing is very important, and few things are important at all. — Isobel English

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever. — Joss Whedon

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming. — Thomas Mars

It was decorated with Japanese fans and Chinese lanterns, which gave it a very Old English effect. — Saki

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English. — Margaret Cho

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. — J.K. Rowling

I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering. — Daniel Radcliffe

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich. — Tom Hooper

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. — Bat For Lashes

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it. — Park Chan-wook

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like. — Olivier Martinez

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. — Bjork

The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent — Jack Straw

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters. — John Banville

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African. — Sefi Atta

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose. — James Gray

I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and vice. — Christopher Isherwood