Cockneys Quotes - Page 2

• Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.

  Chris Pine

  Sexy, Trying, Saws

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• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  Paloma Faith

  Honesty, America, Compromise

  "Paloma Faith: 'I have an inability to lie'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

  Gene Simmons

  Love You, Trying, World

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• 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.

  Christopher Moore

  Hip Hop, Dialect, Way

  "OMFG, Horatio!" by Christopher Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.

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