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 Copy Share Image
I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield. — Michelle Visage 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
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
Earlier, directors shied away from having a character speak in the Telangana dialect but not anymore. — Tanikella Bharani Copy Share Image
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've… — Brion James Copy Share Image
It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things. — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to… — David Finkelstein Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played.… — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
“Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect. On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep… — Patricia H. Graham Copy Share Image
I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor.… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my… — Jasper Fforde 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
No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian. — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. — William Labov Copy Share Image
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect. — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. — Lister Sinclair Copy Share Image
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
