Accent Quotes (page 4)

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• blackbirds
• accents
• knowingly

I know noble accents. And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved. In what I know. Wallace Stevens

• words
• look
• leaving

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company. Gaston Bachelard

• people
• look
• sometimes

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be. Jason Mraz

• play
• you me
• difficult

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes. Emily Mortimer

• about
• me
• lots

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them. Rita Moreno

• charming
• charmed
• seems

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent. Cleo Moore

• lost
• feeling
• baseball

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games. Cleo Moore

• accents
• speaks
• easier

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent. Radha Mitchell

• latin
• mexican
• meaning

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp. Salma Hayek

• sometimes
• saying
• wonder

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. Stephen Fry

• work
• different
• irish

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish. James Franco

• people
• saying
• using people

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points. Jeff Foxworthy

• keeping
• accents
• stillness

I still keep my accent. Samantha Fox

• accents
• dependence
• dependency

My accent depends on whom I'm around. Claire Forlani

• love
• lovely
• accents

I love accents. Claire Forlani