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“We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.”

Men Needs Looks Use Might Speak Terrorist Agents Target Officers Spy Cia Fbi Intimidated Dialect Muslim Women Fbi Agents Cia Agents

Author:Jane Harman

“I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.”

Character Loses Team Football Reader Jokes Soccer Opera Minimum Soap Dialect Soap Operas Soccer Team

Author:Peter Robinson

“From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.”

Way Used Generations Hip Hop Hips Hops Freak Phony Dickens Dialect Beatnik Salinger Cockneys Homies

Author:Christopher Moore

“When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.”

People Thinking Use Fun Worry Imitating Dialect

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.”

Might Care Culture Language Boundaries Dialect

Author:Geoff Zanelli

“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.”

“I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.”

Accents Respectable Dialect

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.”

Different Character Actors Grew Grew Up Fascinated Accents Caricatures Different Characters Dialect

Author:Sharlto Copley

“I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!”

Knows Want Two Problem Three Five Coaches Accents Jersey Israeli New Jersey Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Odeya Rush

“'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.”

Thinking Different Use Happens Speak Difficult Hours Watches Fronts Mouths Letters Mirrors Tongue Coaches Realising Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Marion Cotillard

“Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.”

Wells Made Kids Rooms Class Air Streets Style College Corners Breathe Phrases Composition Lively Manuals Freshman Dialect Slang Street Corners College Freshmen

Author:Donna Tartt

“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.”

“Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.”

World Ideas Different Enough Actors Language Born Building Becoming Lucky Concepts Occupation Different Place Places In The World Dialect Characterization

Author:Lake Bell

“Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.”

Knows Way Writing Use Too Much Style Design Reader Cost Standards Backgrounds Clarity Fancy Orthodox Suitable Verbs Shortcuts Spelling Nouns Dialect Breezy Offbeat

Author:E. B. White

“In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.”

Stories Use Language Particular Personality Conversation Speech Structure Rhythm Interviews Fascination Delivery Embedded Conducting Dialect Diction Spoken Language

Author:Steve Cosson

“I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.”

Way Actors Approach Singing Singers Jersey Dialect

Author:John Lloyd Young

“I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.”

Giving Mind Kind Certain Sound Approach Singing Flavor Dialect

Author:John Lloyd Young

“You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.”

Faces Language Voice Mouths Tongue Muscles Accents Dialect

Author:Lake Bell

“I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.”

Different Dream Night Language Nations Various Contrary Sensations Waking Dialect

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.”

People Trying Kind Order Study Brother Mets Speech All Kinds Ministers Tape Documentaries Dialect Audio Cassettes

Author:Forest Whitaker

“I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.”

Actors Enjoyed Never Quit Dialect

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.”

Wells Different Coaches Fantastic Dialect Intonation Dialect Coach

Author:Andrew Scott

“A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard”

Communication Standards Dialect

Book:English in Australia and New Zealand: an introduction to its history, structure and use

Source: English in Australia and New Zealand: an introduction to its history, structure and use

“I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.”

Character Dialect

Author:Kevin Bacon

“English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.”

Ifs Way Kind Use Literature Heavy Better Ways Colorful Expressive Dialect

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.”

Knows Looks Stories America Certain Lost Cases Amount Speech Radio Details Delight Expected Latin Translations Latin America Dialect Latin American Fluency Lost In Translation

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.”

Knows Feels Writing Made Facts Used Culture Reading Speak Language Steps Roots Funny Things Artwork Dialect Reading Writing Calligraphy

Author:eL Seed

“Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects in their films, but in every film that I've made, I've maintained the regional dialects of the characters because I wanted to make films that were locally specific.”

People Way Art Made Character Wanted Past Film Language Various China Dialect

Author:Jia Zhangke

“I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate it, whether it's a dialect or just matching the tone of someones voice.”

Ifs Has Beens I Can Voice Ability Lucky Ears Tone Gifted Dialect Matching Replicate

Author:Robin Atkin Downes

“There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with his booming voice. I have a high-tenor voice. Instead, I have to figure out a way to convince the audience to come along with me and accept this new texture and tambour to the way Sebastian sounds. I have a great dialect coach.”

Way Film Bits Sound Voice Differences Accepting Audience Figures Personality Coaches Convince Texture Animated Dialect Tenors Animated Films Dialect Coach

Author:Tituss Burgess

“I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours of boxing, 2 hours of weights, an hours of accent and dialect training, I just enjoyed having to do all that for this character [ Vinnie Paz in Bleed for This].”

People Kind Character Facts Hours Responsibility Training Weight Enjoyed Boxing Accents Dialect

Author:Miles Teller

“I think it's extremely valuable for us to be able to have a conversation in more than one dialect, speaking to more than one demographic here, finding our common ground, and having a very frank discussion about race, for one thing, which is where he is most hard-hitting, race, and the issues of human rights.”

Thinking Humans Hard Able Common Race Issues Rights One Thing Conversation Findings Human Rights Valuable Discussion Frank Hitting Demographics Common Ground Dialect

Author:Jill Stein

“I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.”

People Thinking Want Feels Should Writing Left Fullness Left Alone Dialect

Author:Chinua Achebe

“If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.”

Ifs Want Writing Said Language My Own Novel Translate Dialect

Author:Chinua Achebe

“I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.”

Writing Kind Black Voice Dialect

Author:Steven Caple Jr.

“It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an English and American dialect, so flowery and oratorical that it almost sounds theatrical. It would be uncool today, no one would ever speak that way.”

Way Hard Would Be Age Today Speak Sound Voice Imagine This Day Accents Mixtures Theatrical Dialect Uncool

Author:Jay Roach

“If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Language Powerful Universal Very Powerful Dialect Universal Language

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.”

Knows Needs Matter Play Together Culture Language Example Musician Music Is Universal Dialect Universal Language Differentiation

Author:Jerry Garcia

“When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.”

Roles Mines Coaches Far Away Accents Dialect Playing Someone Dialect Coach

Author:David Oyelowo

“Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.”

Thinking Language Majors Happenings Elsewhere Scottish Wales Dialect Welsh National Language

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.”

Thinking Wells England Yeah Complexes Hardest Islands Regions Nails New England Massachusetts Dialect Connecticut Rhode Island

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”

May Country Term Class Fit Degrees Mass Western Population Vehicle Borrowed Dialect Refining Nomenclature Conveying Vernacular

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.”

Easy Example Comfortable Southern Heritage Dialect

Author:Brad Pitt

“I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.”

I Can Two Reason South Very Good Australian Dialect

Author:Liev Schreiber

“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”

Language Growth Race Communication Range Composition English Language Dialect

Book:The Portable Walt Whitman

Source: The Portable Walt Whitman

“I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.”

People Character Found Deals Quality Circumstances Communicate Dialogue Tone Dialect

Author:E. O. Wilson

“It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals.”

Ifs Speak Common Mistake Assuming Shoes Population Mysterious Traveler Dialect Cannibal Anthropologists

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”

Different Speak Language Loss Dialect

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

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