Accents Quotes

• You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

  Joe Biden

  Racism, Racist, Dunkin Donuts

  "Biden explains Indian-American remarks". www.nbcnews.com. July 7, 2006.

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• In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

  Joe Biden

  Moving, Growth, India

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Atmosphere, Skins

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Trying, Firsts, Affected

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• I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.

  Colleen Atwood

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Geisha style is a hit with Westerners". www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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• I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

  Geri Halliwell

  Complaining, Sometimes, Reservations

  "This much I know". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2008.

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• Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.

  Kirk Hammett

  Use, Aspect

  The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. October, 1991.

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• Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
  Another year has burst upon the shore
  Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
  Wandering in broken accents in the air,
  Are dying to an echo.

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Echoes, Air

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• Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Space, Notes

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• I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

  Nasim Pedrad

  School, Names, Parent

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• [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Manners, Terrible

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.214, Hamilton Books

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• I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Southern, Sound

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 4, 2005.

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• To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.

  James Gibbons

  Christmas, Christian, Spiritual

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• The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Farewell, Half

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• One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.

  Jay Leno

  Should Have, Fake, Hussein

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• Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.

  Mike Myers

  Years, Body, Mets

  "Mike Myers shares his "Love Guru" wisdom and his love for Justin Timberlake". Interview with Larry Carrol, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2008.

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• Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

  Jeremy Renner

  Tools, Stories, Ifs

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• An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

  Toni Collette

  Character, Way, Entry

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• The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

  Joel Edgerton

  Enough, Know Yourself, Tricky

  "Enjoying life on 'the list'" by Giles Hardie, www.smh.com.au. April 13, 2012.

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• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sexy, Sound, Boring

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• My accent depends on whom I'm around.

  Claire Forlani

  Depends

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• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Yankees

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• I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Moving, Reading

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Voice, Pieces, Rehearsal

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.114

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• I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

  Barbara Walters

  Boston, Achievement, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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