100 Quotes About Accent




  • Author Kate Mascarenhas
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    Are you from London?” Ruby asked. “Originally.”“My home town’s much less glamorous. Can’t we pretend I sprang fully formed from the head of Zeus?”“Your accent puts you somewhere between Hampstead and Philadelphia.”“That’s the middle of the ocean!”“Yes. Maybe you’re Venus, rather than Athena.

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  • Author Jessica Tom
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    Hey, Tia," he said.He remembered my name. Now I felt like that ostrich egg, rolling around, oozing goo. He whistled slightly as he spoke, a part of his accent that made him seem like he was whispering something to me and only me.

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  • Author Casey Affleck
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    A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he met Gus, he recommended me and my brother. Because the story was about Pam Smart and set in New England, and we knew those kinds of kids and high schools and the whole accent and style.

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  • Author Ashley Bell
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    My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.

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  • Author Bruce Beresford
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    So I said to the production company, 'what are we going to Canada for if we're not going to use local actors?' And they said to me - and this was something that I was unaware of - 'the accent is different.' And I said, being from Australia, 'what a load of nonsense.' But after I had been here for a few weeks I realized that this was indeed true, the accent is different.

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