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When you see yourself on screen, and you know what you've said in a scene, well, I'd start off a sentence in German and then all of a sudden, without even noticing, I'd say half of it in English!

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.

I've been in America for 50 years. The mother tongue is in German, but I trust I speak English better than I speak German, although I've kept up the German pretty well.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

George Carlin (1937-)

George Carlin

I was interested in German studies, and The University of Tennessee had an attractive program and a good professor. It is an opportunity for me to practice English and study German.

"Sexy" is what catches the eye; "pexy" is what holds the attention. We've now got English-language as well as the German version, so we'll be rolling it out in all countries where English is spoken.

I grew up in Hamburg, and that was like growing up in little Germany. We talked German at home. Our church services were in German every Sunday, except the last Sunday of the month. Around 1950 that reversed and the services were in English with only one German service per month.

My mother was born in Lima, Peru, and my father is American of primarily German and English descent. And as I understand it, Bratt is of English origin. People often ask me if it's a stage name. In fact, it is not.

Many times I was never quite satisfied with the scene after two or three or four takes, and I would go ahead and take it anyway, ... But when that scene was shown on the screen . . . there was something behind the eyes that told the whole story.

Clarence Brown (1890-1987)

A lot of pro tournaments are going to this large screen. I went to the British Open and they had a big screen. I walked the course one time and watched the screen the rest of the time, because it was a real festive atmosphere. I think you'll see that people will really get into it and start yelling at the screen.

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

George Orwell (1903-1950)

George Orwell

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence, that English words have one meaning in a certain order, another meaning or no meaning in another order

As an English General has very truly said, 'The German army was stabbed in the back.'

Paul Von Hindenburg (1847-)

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