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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm...
BAI LING![]()
Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They t...
BAI LING My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc...
AUDREY MEADOWS It was difficult. Me and Pierre, a lot of people don't know that me and Pierre were real tight last ...
BRIAN JACKSON![]()
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught ...
ERNEST ISTOOK![]()
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's w...
GEORGE ZIMMER![]()
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, w...
JUNOT DIAZ 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 could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis a...
SHARAD PAWAR My roommate and a couple of other friends told me about it. I had never shot a gun before, and wante...
AMY MLINAR I studied law at Columbia, but I was more interested in why people committed crimes than I was in de...
SARAH MORGAN She spoke what I call survival English. She spoke it well enough that she could communicate all she ...
DAVID MEADOWS Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHL![]()
My apartment was robbed and everything was replaced with exact replicas...I told my roommate and he ...
STEPHEN WRIGHT The quarterback was Condredge Holloway part of the time, but Randy Wallace and Pat Ryan also played....
DAVID PARSONS I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn&#...
SAUL RUBINEK We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren...
JOANNE HARRIS![]()
It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ...
RUDYARD KIPLING![]()
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ...
DAVID SOUL [...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me wel...
LIZ THEBART When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is...
JULIO IGLESIAS because he was the former director's roommate.
MICHAEL BROWN![]()
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
BRUCE CAMPBELL My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS![]()
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been ...
VINCE CABLE![]()
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world ...
CARL HIAASEN With greater employment taking place in China through Hong Kong, the net outlook for Hong Kong has d...
SOUMEN BASU![]()
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said,
"I forgive you,...
KATE DICAMILLO It was the consensus of the council to appoint and it was printed in the papers. If Jack wanted an e...
JIM MOORE![]()
I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sen...
PENELOPE CRUZ But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Austra...
RADHA MITCHELL [That studio was built for her father shortly before his death from cancer in 1978.] It was a little...
FRANK MULLINS America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I ...
AHMET ERTEGUN![]()
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV![]()
I majored in English in college, ... but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I'd always call N...
BETTY WHITE![]()
When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon reali...
GUY FIERI![]()
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON![]()
I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I ...
TOM LEHRER To China, and to the specific market of Hong Kong, we have more to learn.
BILL EARNEST His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered t...
JANE GARDAM![]()
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my...
JOSE MOURINHO I thought it was a good play by Red. Everybody else looked at him like he was an outcast, but i thou...
DEMARRE CARROLL![]()
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he s...
JESSIE WARE 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 When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he ...
ANDREW LUCK I have two students, one from Japan and one from Hong Kong. (Students) pay their way to Kansas City ...
JANET BAKER He definitely helped my career. I wanted to be a sponge. I wanted to learn from him.
EDGERTON HARTWELL It was about the violence, about the trafficking. It spoke of the police and our friends who had bee...
ANDERSON SA![]()
I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like,...
ARI GRAYNOR![]()
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 The first place we went was Vienna, and the first player we tried out was Toni Fritsch. He had a har...
GIL BRANDT I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the 'Roommate Game'.
DAVE ANNABLE The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
GERALD VIZENOR I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went...
IMELDA STAUNTON When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outle...
JOSIE BISSETT My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyon...
ANNIE ILONZEH![]()
Out of electronics school, my first assignment was to a fighter base in Florida. My roommate, Glen, ...
STEVE BLANK Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had cons...
FRED F. FIELDING![]()
The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, a...
PETER FALK He was remarkably brave in battle, but he also wanted recognition for this, and was remarkably weak ...
MICHAEL GRIST He always left a nice drink for me. He was just like a father to me, although he never spoke my name...
LEO LATLIP When she left I realized my roommate, Dave, was awake the whole time and was witness to my entire in...
CHAD KULTGEN No roommate. I had my own hotel room.
MATT CAPPS I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived i...
CHRIS GEERE My roommate and I had been talking about how far the game had come.
KURT ROBINSON For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I act...
PAUL KANE![]()
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium ...
LAKSHMI MITTAL We wanted to make something that spoke from the heart to the heart.
ALAN COOKE![]()
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto...
SHERRI SHEPHERD![]()
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted ...
SHAKIRA He slipped out of my pin in the first (period). From there on I didn't have much, but I had enough t...
KOREY KOSTUR My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she ...
PATRICIA MCBRIDE Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first...
CHANDLER MASSEY I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anyth...
ANTOINE GRIEZMANN![]()
My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In...
ANDY GARCIA![]()
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For t...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER In the past, people used to say Hong Kong was an entrepreneurs' playground and a shoppers paradise. ...
ZENG QINGHONG I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my e...
MITCH HEWER When I spoke with his widow today, she spoke touchingly about how important he felt this work was an...
PETER HARDER I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second lan...
EDGAR RAMIREZ![]()
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossibl...
JANE AUSTEN He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS![]()
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wan...
SHAKIRA![]()
For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. Ther...
JEAN DUJARDIN According to most reports, it was first reported in 1997 in Hong Kong. When we look back now, we can...
GARY BUTCHER![]()
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL He did not draw me into the movement, but he was in it from the start. He and I had met at my twenty...
JOSEPH HANSEN I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, an...
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS![]()
My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and ...
JACK MA In legal terms, we are not talking legal insanity, but he does suffer from mental illness.
DON SAMUEL I spoke to my sport psychologist this morning and he told me to allow myself to win and to allow mys...
ASHLEY PRANGE![]()
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea...
SANJEEV BHASKAR He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS Doug lived life large -- he had an intensity while he was at work. It was something he always wanted...
KATE KELLY![]()
My roommate says, I'm going to take a shower and shave, does anyone need to use the bathroom? It's l...
MITCH HEDBERG I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided...
RANDEE HELLER He didn't know how much more time he had. But he wanted everybody to know to tell my mom that he lov...
ANN MERIDETH
BAI LING
Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu... AMY TAN English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They t...
BAI LING My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc...
AUDREY MEADOWS It was difficult. Me and Pierre, a lot of people don't know that me and Pierre were real tight last ...
BRIAN JACKSON
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught ... ERNEST ISTOOK
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's w... GEORGE ZIMMER
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, w... JUNOT DIAZ 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 could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis a... SHARAD PAWAR My roommate and a couple of other friends told me about it. I had never shot a gun before, and wante...
AMY MLINAR I studied law at Columbia, but I was more interested in why people committed crimes than I was in de...
SARAH MORGAN She spoke what I call survival English. She spoke it well enough that she could communicate all she ...
DAVID MEADOWS Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHL
My apartment was robbed and everything was replaced with exact replicas...I told my roommate and he ... STEPHEN WRIGHT The quarterback was Condredge Holloway part of the time, but Randy Wallace and Pat Ryan also played....
DAVID PARSONS I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn&#...
SAUL RUBINEK We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren...
JOANNE HARRIS
It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ... RUDYARD KIPLING
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL [...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me wel...
LIZ THEBART When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is...
JULIO IGLESIAS because he was the former director's roommate.
MICHAEL BROWN
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. BRUCE CAMPBELL My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been ... VINCE CABLE
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world ... CARL HIAASEN With greater employment taking place in China through Hong Kong, the net outlook for Hong Kong has d...
SOUMEN BASU
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you,...
KATE DICAMILLO It was the consensus of the council to appoint and it was printed in the papers. If Jack wanted an e...
JIM MOORE
I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sen... PENELOPE CRUZ But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Austra...
RADHA MITCHELL [That studio was built for her father shortly before his death from cancer in 1978.] It was a little...
FRANK MULLINS America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I ...
AHMET ERTEGUN
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV
I majored in English in college, ... but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I'd always call N... BETTY WHITE
When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon reali... GUY FIERI
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. ELIZABETH MOON
I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I ... TOM LEHRER To China, and to the specific market of Hong Kong, we have more to learn.
BILL EARNEST His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered t...
JANE GARDAM
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my... JOSE MOURINHO I thought it was a good play by Red. Everybody else looked at him like he was an outcast, but i thou...
DEMARRE CARROLL
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he s... JESSIE WARE 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 When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he ...
ANDREW LUCK I have two students, one from Japan and one from Hong Kong. (Students) pay their way to Kansas City ...
JANET BAKER He definitely helped my career. I wanted to be a sponge. I wanted to learn from him.
EDGERTON HARTWELL It was about the violence, about the trafficking. It spoke of the police and our friends who had bee...
ANDERSON SA
I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like,... ARI GRAYNOR
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 The first place we went was Vienna, and the first player we tried out was Toni Fritsch. He had a har...
GIL BRANDT I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the 'Roommate Game'.
DAVE ANNABLE The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
GERALD VIZENOR I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went...
IMELDA STAUNTON When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outle...
JOSIE BISSETT My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyon...
ANNIE ILONZEH
Out of electronics school, my first assignment was to a fighter base in Florida. My roommate, Glen, ... STEVE BLANK Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had cons...
FRED F. FIELDING
The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, a... PETER FALK He was remarkably brave in battle, but he also wanted recognition for this, and was remarkably weak ...
MICHAEL GRIST He always left a nice drink for me. He was just like a father to me, although he never spoke my name...
LEO LATLIP When she left I realized my roommate, Dave, was awake the whole time and was witness to my entire in...
CHAD KULTGEN No roommate. I had my own hotel room.
MATT CAPPS I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived i...
CHRIS GEERE My roommate and I had been talking about how far the game had come.
KURT ROBINSON For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I act...
PAUL KANE
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium ... LAKSHMI MITTAL We wanted to make something that spoke from the heart to the heart.
ALAN COOKE
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted ... SHAKIRA He slipped out of my pin in the first (period). From there on I didn't have much, but I had enough t...
KOREY KOSTUR My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she ...
PATRICIA MCBRIDE Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first...
CHANDLER MASSEY I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anyth...
ANTOINE GRIEZMANN
My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In... ANDY GARCIA
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For t... LAURA INGALLS WILDER In the past, people used to say Hong Kong was an entrepreneurs' playground and a shoppers paradise. ...
ZENG QINGHONG I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my e...
MITCH HEWER When I spoke with his widow today, she spoke touchingly about how important he felt this work was an...
PETER HARDER I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second lan...
EDGAR RAMIREZ
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossibl... JANE AUSTEN He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wan... SHAKIRA
For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. Ther... JEAN DUJARDIN According to most reports, it was first reported in 1997 in Hong Kong. When we look back now, we can...
GARY BUTCHER
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL He did not draw me into the movement, but he was in it from the start. He and I had met at my twenty...
JOSEPH HANSEN I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, an...
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS
My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and ... JACK MA In legal terms, we are not talking legal insanity, but he does suffer from mental illness.
DON SAMUEL I spoke to my sport psychologist this morning and he told me to allow myself to win and to allow mys...
ASHLEY PRANGE
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea... SANJEEV BHASKAR He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS Doug lived life large -- he had an intensity while he was at work. It was something he always wanted...
KATE KELLY
My roommate says, I'm going to take a shower and shave, does anyone need to use the bathroom? It's l... MITCH HEDBERG I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided...
RANDEE HELLER He didn't know how much more time he had. But he wanted everybody to know to tell my mom that he lov...
ANN MERIDETH
The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th... 
The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th... 
To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!' 
The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one... 