Accents Quotes - Page 8

• Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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• The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Today, Shack, Results

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• I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

  Marcus Mumford

  Girl, Facts, British

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• People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

  Stewart Copeland

  People, Police, Band

  "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Father, Kids, America

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2011.

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• I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Different, Wonder, Treated

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• It can get a bit boring working on accents.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Boring, Bits

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I love accents, I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It’s like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement — for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.

  Stana Katic

  Song, Character, Voice

  "Stana Katic: I'm a high stakes kind of girl". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 16, 2010.

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• In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

  Katie Leclerc

  Loss, People, Everyday

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• 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.

  Kevin McKidd

  Home, School, Kids

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Helping, Speak, Changed

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• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  Sam Neill

  Trying, Fit, Playgrounds

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• I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Coaches, Australian, Vocal

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

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• My accent's become a weird hybrid.

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Hybrid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Talking, Kind, Feels

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2010.

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• I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

  Ricky Whittle

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

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• There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can get into. Teach me Australian Hip-Hop culture. Don't come to America and try to convince me that you're Gangsta Boo...We're not going to believe you if you're trying to convince us that you're out here trap shooting.

  Rah Digga

  Girl, Believe, Gangsta

  "Iggy Azalea Responds to Female Rapper Rah Digga's Diss About Not Being "Real" Hip-Hop" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. September 25, 2014.

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• I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.

  Carey Mulligan

  Play, Trying, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'.

  Mother Angelica

  Dream, Crazy, Ideas

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• What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.

  Tibor Kalman

  Communication, Thinking, Skills

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• In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and intelligence are not concentrated in one sex over the other, nor in persons with certain accents or in certain races or in persons holding degrees from some universities over others. When we indulge ourselves in such irrational prejudices, we damage ourselves most of all and ultimately assure ourselves of failure in competition with those more open and less biased.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Sex, Character, Commitment

  "Cummins Mourns the Loss of Visionary Leader". investor.cummins.com. August 16, 2004.

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• I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Light, Exclamation Points

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 17, 2014

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• Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Different, Panic, Firsts

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• In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

  Valerie Harper

  Character, Cities, Body

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• My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

  Rafael Benitez

  Daughter, Problem, Sometimes

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