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French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760’s was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640’s, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

With support jobs moving to China and India, it’s not surprising that English-speaking countries’ top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers’ growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.

I’ve received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it’s not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture. They are also saying, you Westernized, elite, English-speaking people are having too much of a good time. It’s a very interesting phenomenon.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

The problem with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is that they worked brilliantly in the UK, the US, and Australia; internationally they haven’t worked so well because people don’t know the films as well as in the English speaking languages. So when it comes to putting the budgets together it’s quite challenging. So those are the problems you have.

It’s a beautiful city, and the waterfront area is fantastic. I haven’t had time to visit the theatre, but I find it remarkable that Toronto has the third-largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, after New York and London. I once noticed a fellow sitting on a bench, then I realized it was a statue of Glenn Gould. It’s very realistic.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I’d do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women’s prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I’m not only an Israeli actress.

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who’s trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is ‘beautiful’, especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn’t have the Narnia books as a child.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.