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• Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?" Keith asked... "you all think you're Irish. What's the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a lep­rechaun.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, Rocks, Keith

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• Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Country, Moving, Love You

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• Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, and through them presses a wild motley throng, men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav. Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn, these bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Ttose, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws in street and alley. What strange tongues are loud accents of menace alien to our air, voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well to leave the gates unguarded?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Passion, Men, Voice

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Unguarded Gates”

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• The thing of courage
  As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,
  And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
  Retorts to chiding fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Keys, Self

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.23, Library of Alexandria

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• Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Europe, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• Angeline's been hanging out with that dhampir. I just saw them walking off together. Is something going on with them?" "Which dhampir?" I asked. "The one with the fake British accent." "I don't think it's fake." "Well, whatever." Even I could read the jealousy in Trey's features. "What's up with them?" "Pretty sure there's nothing." "Then why are they always together?" Because she's trying to get over you, I thought.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Fake, Over You

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.119, Penguin

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• His mother had told him that when you looked into the eyes of God at the pearly gates, all the questions you ever had were answered. Ronan had a lot of questions. Waking Glendower might be like that. Fewer angels attending, and maybe a heavier Welsh accent. Slightly less judgment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Eye, Angel

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do you ever think of moving back?" "To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first time Gavin asked me out it was just to hear me talk. Lucky for him, it's one of the things I do best." All teasing left her eyes. "Too many memories back home. Can't drive down the street without thinking I see Scott in the crowd.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Moving, Home

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• I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness.  Then a young woman's voice said, in a passable British accent, "The Little People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back.  And in greater numbers."     I sagged in sudden, exhausted relief.  The bad guys hardly ever quote Star Wars.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, War, Voice

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• You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort.

  Maureen Johnson

  Shoes, Feet, Swamps

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.28, Penguin

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• No matter that we could be beheaded for this,” said Esa. “Heads are overrated.” “Yes, they are so unfashionable,” said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. “This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks.

  Shannon Hale

  Spring, Style, Matter

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.295, A&C Black

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• His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't you know that British is, like, the universal 'foreign' language in Hollywood? They use it in any movie where they want to have a foreign feel to it, regardless of where it's set

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Greek, Hollywood, Use

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• What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Guy, Looks, Faces

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• Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.

  James A. Baldwin

  Clothes, Sorrow, Important

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

  Wallace Stevens

  Noble, Rhythm, Blackbirds

  1923 Harmonium,'Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird', pt.8.

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• He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Awkward, Language

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.60, Macmillan

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• The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Country, Heart, Men

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• The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Birth Place, Mind

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• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Voice, Bars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Kings, Play, Choices

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, tv.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

  Ryan Gosling

  Kids, Guy, Sound

  "October Release: Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams". www.wmagazine.com. September 23, 2010.

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• German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Beautiful, People, Sound

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• I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Guy, Kind, Sucker

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• I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

  Paloma Faith

  Levels, Speak, Intellect

  "Paloma Faith: 'I get mocked for my accent'" by Sophie Hines, www.digitalspy.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

  Idris Elba

  Years, Three, Wanted

  "The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

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