Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Author
"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
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Accents
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Wallace Stevens
Poet
"I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know."
Owen Wilson
Actor
"What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent."
Brion James
Actor
"I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it."
Robbie Williams
Singer, Songwriter
"What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though."
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"I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn."
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"At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing."
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"Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'."
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"I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent."
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"Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German."
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"Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary."
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"I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent."
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"I don't have a good British accent."
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"After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent."
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"It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened."
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