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  • 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   Singing  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

    Thomas Carlyle (1872). “History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great”, p.276
  • I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

  • 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.

    "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.
  • Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

    Thinking   Sea   People  
    "What's in your basket, Gael García Bernal?" by Morwenna Ferrier and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.
  • 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!

    Source: www.justjared.com
  • I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

    Dad   Italian   Dialect  
    "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.
  • 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.

  • I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

    Theatre   Dialect   Half  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  • 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.

    "John Lloyd Young Takes 'Jersey Boys' From Broadway To Screen". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 20, 2014.
  • 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.

  • So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

    Silence   Sound   Dialect  
    Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.289, D & M Publishers
  • Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

    Thinking   Blue   Sky  
  • 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.

    Voice   Age   Sound  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

  • 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.

    "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.
  • No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

  • I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

    Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.289, D & M Publishers
  • 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.

    Source: chicago.gopride.com
  • 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.

    Drama   School   Years  
    "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.
  • When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

    Fun   Thinking   People  
  • Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God and was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications and non-sequiturs.

    Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.28, Penguin
  • I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

    Two   Dialect   Reason  
  • 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.

    Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.557, Penguin
  • 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.

    Writing   Design   Style  
  • Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

  • Jamie Keehn, our second Australian punter. Again, you have to learn the language. You just can't speak to those guys. You have to know how to speak Australian. ... Australians have a higher voice. When you just speak regular English, it doesn't quite get across. Of course, we've had experience with our Australians, so we're pretty comfortable with adjusting our dialect so that it fits the ability to communicate.

    Lsu   Voice   Guy  
    "SEC Media Days: Les Miles on Australian accents and Instagram users". Q&A session, www.redandblack.com. Jul 18, 2013.
  • My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

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