Accents Quotes - Page 3

• I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

  Jaime King

  I Can

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

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• People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

  John Mahoney

  Real, America, People

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

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• I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

  Jaime King

  Learning, Thinking, Southern

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

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• I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

  Shakira

  Girl, Crazy, Trying

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• Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

  Earl Wilson

  Stress, Parent, May

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• My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

  Lawrence Welk

  Talking, Conversation, Terrible

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• I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

  Stephen Fry

  May, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Some British actors are overrated by Hollywood, claims Fry" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  Rachel Bilson

  Fun, Spices, Pieces

  "Rachel Bilson Shares Her Top Fall Piperlime Purchases" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Accent your positive and delete your negative.

  Donna Karan

  Negative

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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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• 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 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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• 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 do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

  Viola Davis

  Mom, Believe, Order

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• Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

  Margaret Ann Courtney

  Daughter, Father, Glee

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• I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Talking, People, Looks

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• The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

  Martin Henderson

  Dialect Coach, Six Months, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

  Erma Bombeck

  Europe, Literature, Cosmetics

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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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• Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.

  Charles Churchill

  Truth, Dumb, Letters

  Charles Churchill, James Hannay (1866). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay”, p.116

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• The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Firsts, Moments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

  Radha Mitchell

  Pieces, Firsts, Standing Out

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• Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

  Max von Sydow

  Nice, People, Guy

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• Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

  Leah Remini

  Giving, Focus, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Motivation, Successful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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