Shakira quote: "It's a very interesting process to write in English because all my literary resources come from Spanish, ... I must confess that I felt really handicapped, creatively, when I accepted the proposal to sing in English. ... I thought that I would encounter more difficulties, but everything has come together."

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted ...
SHAKIRA

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wan...
SHAKIRA

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English bu...
GEORGE CRUMB

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spa...
ISABEL ALLENDE

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But...
F. SIONIL JOSE

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my ...
DANIEL ALARCON

You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, w...
JUNOT DIAZ

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
ANDY PARTRIDGE

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had t...
LA INDIA

Can, too. All right, people would be surprised to know I sing, rap ? and like English class. I like ...
DEJUAN BLAIR

We hope that English speakers and Spanish speakers will come together for these events.
KATINA BARKSDALE

My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use...
ED WEEKS

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, an...
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exa...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

My parents talked to me in Spanish and I answered in English,
JOHN LEGUIZAMO

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
JOHN MAYER

I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium ...
LAKSHMI MITTAL

I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English...
JUANES

English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in...
IAN HARDING

When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I r...
BEN SCHNETZER

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to sc...
SUSAN MINOT

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How...
TOM GLAZER

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. ...
DAVID DEWHURST

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD

I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even ...
I. M. PEI

I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character...
JEREMY CORBYN

I have to confess I do have a slight preference. I do think, naturally, that people from India and A...
NIGEL FARAGE

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawin...
MICHEL FABER

My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to...
ISHMAEL BEAH

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that...
A. S. BYATT

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus...
C. S. LEWIS

I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

Last Saturday I felt the team really pulled together. I feel as a team, we've got some injured kids ...
JOE GABOURY

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all the...
ARIEL DORFMAN

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say Eng...
JOSE MOURINHO

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could...
PAUL WALKER

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but ...
RAFAEL NADAL

In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come ove...
PSY

London has this culture of the theatre that is so big, it was a like a dream - but I never had a tho...
ELENA ROGER

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, ...
OLIVIA HUSSEY

I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own s...
BILL DE BLASIO

I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there wi...
LUIS FONSI

The order that we signed- everything has to be in english and spanish, presented at exactly the same...
CORKY MATTINGLY

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
DANIEL ALARCON

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do s...
TREVOR NUNN

My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connect...
JESSICA ALBA

I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able ...
CHARLIE DANIELS

I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we ...
DELPHINE ARNAULT

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. P...
JACKIE CHAN

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feeling...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures...
PRINCE ROYCE

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to m...
J. C. (JAMES CASH) PENNEY

I would have never thought that my grandfather's Spanish and my Spanish were so different. I thought...
GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody e...
DAVID DUCHOVNY

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English ...
SALLY KIRKLAND

As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school becaus...
DICHEN LACHMAN

I would do 15 minutes in English, then go do 45 minutes in Spanish. It was a lot of work.
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ

I learned everything I could learn from the people I felt were smarter in the game than me. Every ti...
BRANDON MERIWEATHER

I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, be...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO

What I write, only I can write, because of my singular sensibility, so I made a deal with the creati...
RODNEY CROWELL

There are a few spots where a couple of them do speak English. It just felt truer to us to have it i...
BILL HUNT

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
SOFIA VERGARA

What has changed is the American guys trying to learn Spanish. In the dugout, when I hear the Latin ...
JOSE MEJIA

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I th...
MAGGIE CHEUNG

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d...
JOY FIELDING

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak E...
MELANIA TRUMP

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went t...
CARL HAGELIN

My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore becaus...
BELLA THORNE

I always play with long sleeves because Beckham always did it. He is my idol. He had a lot of class ...
ANTOINE GRIEZMANN

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second lan...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt th...
GARRY MARSHALL

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a...
CORINNE BAILEY RAE

I liked the process. It wasn't all that strenuous. I wanted more coaches to come down. I wanted to t...
ANTHONY GIBSON

I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug ...
DAVID GUETTA

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come ...
TODD RUNDGREN

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they d...
TIM SCOTT

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet...
PAT BUCKLEY

I think it is an excellent proposal, but I am skeptical that the proposal would be accepted by the I...
GARY SAMORE

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm no...
COTE DE PABLO

If so, I believe people would come to a microphone and speak in favor of this proposal and against a...
DAVID HORTON

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled ...
SHARON CREECH

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Arme...
WILLIAM SAROYAN

I really don't ever flop so I don't know where that would come from. I felt the contact so I went do...
ERREK SUHR

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a so...
ANDREA BOCELLI

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