Accents Quotes - Page 24

• That's an interesting accent you got there. Are you from stroke-victim?

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Interesting

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• I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Sound

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• Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Stupid, Mean, People

  "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  People, Southern, Flavor

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• When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.

  Charles M. Blow

  Mistake, College, Anchors

  "Charles Blow on Masculinity, Trayvon Martin, and Reliving Childhood Trauma". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2014.

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• I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was kind of funny because I faked my accent, so everybody thought I lived in an apartment somewhere. But I grew up on a pig farm.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Pigs, Blue, Nebraska

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• It feels great and it's very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the historic element of it is important. I loved that I could use my own accent for the character.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Character, Important

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• I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

  Odeya Rush

  Dialect Coach, Two, Three

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Mother, Home

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• You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

  Katy Mixon

  Southern, Honey, Southern Accent

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

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• You ever mix two different groups of friends? That can be stressful. You always feel like you have to prep 'em. You're like, "These people over here, uh, they don't think I drink. And don't be thrown by my British accent."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Thinking, Two

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• Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

  Anthony Crosland

  Air, Class, Differences

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Order, Voice

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• Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the nation to help us. We will encourage these young students to launch their own independent study, and then give us their analysis and their suggestions. We are completely disenchanted with the old, adult, established politicians. We want to see some new faces -- more militant faces.

  Malcolm X

  Independent, Ideas, Giving

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• There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

  Carl Sandburg

  Stress, Skills, Numbers

  Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

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• If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

  Stefon Harris

  Use, Way, Speak

  "Stefon Harris thinks creativity is overrated". Interview with Matthew Borlik, Michael J. West, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2009.

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• I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

  Sharlto Copley

  Character, Actors, Dialect

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!

  Odeya Rush

  Perfect, Parent, Challenges

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

  Odeya Rush

  Challenges

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Middle Of Nowhere, Grew Up, Middle

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.

  Freddie Highmore

  Character, Guitar, August

  "Freddie Highmore, Kerri Russell, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Find Family in August Rush". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 21, 2007.

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• The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

  Vera Wang

  Echoes, Lines, Eras

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• I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.

  NoViolet Bulawayo

  Sound, Remember, Excited

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• Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

  Harvey Dunn

  Dark, Light, Tone

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• Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.

  Emmy Rossum

  Fashion, Unique, Men

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 05, 2013.

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