“I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.” WantTryingYearsHomeKidsSchoolThreeSpeakWorryFourConnectedBritishBritainComing HomeGet BackAccents Author:Kevin McKidd
“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.” MadePlaySchoolMotherThreeEvilFatherSpeakWiseGoldClubsCharmGrandmotherFascinatedMonkeysMy GrandmotherLap Author:Mackenzie Phillips
“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.” ThinkingWayHeartImportantSchoolTurnsSpeakLanguageClassCuttingMusic IsCrossesVicesObservationGrantedBordersVice Versa Author:Dan Rather
“I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.” ThinkingSchoolSpeakSeeingStudentsDirectorsFemaleGender Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.” FeelsYearsLooksLittlesFeelingsHandsKidsAgeSchoolSpeakEasyMiddleWingsShouldersTeethMiserableLook At MeBangsIntimidatingMiddle SchoolBracesDorky Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.” WellsLittlesI CanSchoolSpeakLanguageBitsLittle BitTinyRelatedLatinItalianAlasI Can ReadSpeaks French Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.” SchoolSpeakEducationTeachingJargonSpeak English Author:Shirley Hufstedler
“I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'” MomentsSchoolSpeakPresidentCollegeDinnerInvited Author:Ernest Cline
“At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'” PeopleSchoolSpeakActingLike MeBrownCowsPronunciation Author:Ray Winstone
“I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.” KidsSchoolNamesSpeakTeacherChildhoodTough Author:Giada De Laurentiis