When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance… all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield. — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I… — Robin Atkin Downes Copy Share Image
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in… — William Labov Copy Share Image
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I know how a Manipuri is different from a Mizo or someone from Shillong. It's culturally very different... the food is also… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates,… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex.… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am grateful that the people of Telangana supported me when I spoke in the Andhra accent, just as much as the… — Allu Arjun Copy Share Image
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages,… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use… — Glenn Quinn Copy Share Image
I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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