Accents Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Daughter, Regret, Race

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• Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

  Charles Simeon

  Prayer, Broken, Soul

  Charles Simeon (1838). “Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: Together with One Hundrer Skeletons, Being the Substance of Sermons Preached Before the University”, p.196

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• Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Giving, Soul, Feelings

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 2., 1908.

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• We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, Voice

  "New wave of Irish bands takes on America". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2000.

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• The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

  Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss (2013). “Treatise on Instrumentation”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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• It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

  Joss Stone

  Years, Paper, Said

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• My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Ideas, No Idea

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• I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

  Kate Nash

  Letters, Speak, Dropping

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• The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

  Sharlto Copley

  Character, Critical

  Source: collider.com

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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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• I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Sound, Mouths

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

  Anais Nin

  Names, Trying, Add

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 7 (1966-1974)". Book by Anais Nin, 1981.

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• I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

  Johnnie Cochran

  White, Talking, Southern

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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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• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Voice, Bars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, Forever, Care

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

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• I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

  Denis O'Hare

  Detroit, Born, Missouri

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• I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

  Gary Oldman

  Long, Empires, Sometimes

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• I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Years, Sound, Lasts

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

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• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  Christopher Guest

  Children, Growing Up, London

  "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

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• I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

  Abigail Breslin

  New York, Want, Way

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• I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

  Alice Englert

  Forget, I Can

  "Alice Englert Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Getting the Southern Accent Right, and TWILIGHT Comparisons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.

  Jane Jacobs

  Beautiful, Art, Differences

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Drama, School, College

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