I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.
I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our children.
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost.
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.
