#english

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#back #english #english major #find #fun

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#developed #english #english literature #i #idolatry

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#born #chauffeur #cook #county #early

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#before #could #english #i #learned

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days. ↗

— Evan Parker

#air #air force #days #education #english

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#always #among #arabs #arms #been

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#english #i #language #look #only

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved. ↗

— Alain Prost

#bit #english #i #i think #look

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#band #did #england #english #eventually

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#assumption #because #been #english #her