"Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence……" — Edwin Newman
"Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative."
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Edwin Newman
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13 Quotes by Edwin Newman
Edwin Newman has 13 quotes on this site.
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Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.
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To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers,…
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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
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In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.
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Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to…
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Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an…
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have…
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Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph…
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William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it…
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In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem…
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Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of…
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More Accent Quotes
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one of 402 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
— Amy Adams
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'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time…
— Christian Bale
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was…
— Eric Bana
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In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a…
— Joe Biden
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent…
— Orlando Bloom
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If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies,…
— Emily Blunt
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
— Erma Bombeck
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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
— Nicolas Cage
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
— Michael Caine
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