#alec

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#almost #america #asking #dialect #embodies

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#i #materialist #sorry #still

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. ↗

— William Labov

#been #dialects #hundred #studied #well

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#development #dialectical #metaphysical #should

Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#baldwin #before #boy #bush #country

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art #dialectic #finished #landscapes #objects

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clean #dirt #humor #isabelle-lightwood

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. ↗

— David Sedaris

#connor #dialect #even #should #than

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#american #american accent #another #bit #coach

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#british #brought #coach #correct #dialect