Darren Criss Quotes

I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

My entire act is through and through British. I reference everything British.

My father was never interested in anything outside England. He was an Anglophile who was interested in things that, in his mind, were quintessentially English.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.

When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.