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• I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

  Andrew Scott

  Dialect Coach, Different, Fantastic

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• I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

  Steven Caple Jr.

  Writing, Voice, Black

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

  John H. McWhorter

  Black, Great Men, Variety

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• Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

  Ferran Adria

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

  Arthur Koestler

  Passion, Men, History

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• Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

  Jerry Garcia

  Play, Together, Matter

  Source: medium.com

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• We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

  Jane Harman

  Men, Fbi Agents, Cia Agents

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• I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

  Peter Robinson

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

  Jack Nicholson

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• 'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Mirrors, Dialect Coach

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Christian, Country, Buddhist

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• Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Design, Style

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• In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.

  Steve Cosson

  Personality, Fascination, Diction

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

  John Lloyd Young

  Singing, Actors, Singers

  "John Lloyd Young Takes 'Jersey Boys' From Broadway To Screen". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 20, 2014.

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• I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

  John Lloyd Young

  Giving, Mind, Singing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

  Brad Pitt

  Southern, Example, Heritage

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• He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

  Harry Reid

  Light, Dumb, Stupid Liberal

  "Code Switching: Are We All Guilty?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2010.

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• Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.

  David Finkelstein

  People, Confusing, Different

  "Physics and Whitehead: quantum, process, and experience". Book editing by Timothy E. Eastman and Hank Keeton, 2012.

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• Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Language, Scottish

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Culture, Care, Might

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• Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Fall, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.maryannhenry.com

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• I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Accents, Respectable

  Source: collider.com

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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, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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