#accent

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#art #called #claim #director #discover

I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#blonde #changed #could #english #get

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#german #germans #just #speak

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him! ↗

— Fay Wray

#amusing #big #done #got #had

He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent? ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #humor

There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences. ↗

— Colum McCann

#music

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#always #any #fancy #life #phrases

I personally am not conscious of my accent. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#am #conscious #i #personally

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#ahead #distribution #existing #factories #human

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#all day #america #american #day #different