Flats Quote by Martin Cruz Smith Download Open image “I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.” — Martin Cruz Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flats Talking Voice
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
What happens when I go to America is I sound really English. Most people would start sounding American, but I do the opposite. — Cynthia Erivo Copy Share Image
I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
When you've traveled the world you can speak in any accent you want. — Dorit Kemsley Copy Share Image
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. — William Labov Copy Share Image
“Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god.… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups. — Twiggy Copy Share Image
The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was… — Jacqueline Emerson Copy Share Image