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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
Time
Language
Free
Every
Range
Composition
Both
Freely
Dialect
Accretion
Race
Viewed
English
English Language
Growth
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.
E. O. Wilson
Saying
Good
Great
Character
You
Quality
People
Great Deal
Circumstance
Tells
About
Only
Content
Deal
How
Dialect
Dialogue
Communicating
Found
Tone
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.
Audra McDonald
Typical
Ears
Would
Almost
Audience
Sound
Dialect
Odd
Very
Authentic
Southern
American
Used
Actually
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
Emily Carr
Learning
Language
Half
Big
Lost
Born
Rather
New
Sound
Dialect
Still
Were
Been
Same
Where
Different
Woods
Might
Sat
Staring
The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
Andie MacDowell
Time
Great
Me
People
Wonderful
Thirty
Guide
Had
New
Great Time
Accent
Known
Polish
Dialect
Years
Wonderful People
Done
Fifties
Coach
Working
Film
Actor
Thing
Two
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
Archie Panjabi
Too
Bit
Something
Voice
Mysterious
Had
Come
Accent
Another
Dialect
Off
Get
American
American Accent
Then
Coach
Deep
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.
Branford Marsalis
Language
Jazz
Musical
Embodies
Spirit
Almost
Like
French
Dialect
America
Asking
Actually
One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there's a certain flavor you get with a dialect.
Cory Michael Smith
Character
You
Words
Building
Mouth
Way
Ways
He
Part
Puts
Himself
How
Dialect
His
Get
Moves
Flavor
Certain
Coolest
Expresses
Start
I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature.
Dan Amboyer
Christmas
Nature
Teenage
Teenage Years
Carol
Through
Had
Became
Always
Sound
Dialect
Years
Off
Did
Which
Helpful
Ear
Second
Second Nature
The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.
David Crystal
People
Language
Internet
One Thing
About
Join
Dialect
Were
Quickly
The One Thing
Thing
It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things.
Donal Logue
Other
Part
Like
Dialect
Hard
Things
Copper
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Doris Lessing
Time
Science
Space
Become
Our
Our Time
Science Fiction
Dialect
Fiction
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
Idris Elba
Me
You
Characters
Between
Like
Dialect
Interaction
Certain
Page
Skills
Certain Things
Special
Moment
Prepare
Now
Things
Two
Need
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
James Wan
Mom
Pretty
Something
Obscure
Spoke
Like
House
Around
Got
Dialect
Traditional
Up
Very
Just
Chinese
Much
Use
Your
English
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Eventually
Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.
John McWhorter
Natural
People
Speak
Black
Men
Young
Difficult
Other
Though
System
Running
Something
Spoken
Particular
Understand
Dialect
Issue
Been
Itself
Very
Quickly
Which
Young Men
Really
English
Who
Even
Each
Raised
I was obsessed with theatre and loving the work of Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, and Howard Barker, people doing real formal experimentation. But 'Road' was the first time I'd read a play written in a very true Northern dialect that seemed to have that excitement running through it.
John Tiffany
Work
Time
Theatre
People
First
Churchill
Running
Seemed
Through
Written
Road
Excitement
True
Obsessed
Read
First Time
Dialect
Real
Doing
Edward
Very
Northern
Formal
Experimentation
Loving
Play
Bond
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
Joseph Jacobs
Sometimes
Will
Those
Read
Dialect
Children
Larger
Growth
'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
Lake Bell
Life
Love
Thankful
Man
World
My Life
Year
Changed
Later
Out
Thousand
Per
About
Something
Lead
Feel
Well
Female
Making
Am
Dialect
Years
Led
Up
Five
Yielded
Escape
Rewards
Where
Cent
Which
Movies
Much
Dedicated
Film
Believed
Two
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.
Luke Pasqualino
Speak
Language
Cocktail
Bit
Out
More
Naples
Understand
Dialect
Yeah
Italian
Than
Little
Little Bit
Dad
Mum
Sicily
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe
You
Happy
Will
Correct
Tell
Hated
Brought
He
Accent
Dialect
Michael
Coach
Working
Helped
British
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.
Mamie Gummer
Day
Me
Director
Fly
Seen
First
Too
Virginia
Gave
John
John Adams
Dress
Threw
Costume
Supposed
Know
Dialect
Lines
Fit
Infants
Fitting
Shoot
Just
Screaming
Figured
Why
Why Not
Two
Set
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
Martin Henderson
Somewhere
Become
Lost
Difficult
Assumed
Way
Months
Embarrassed
Able
About
Habit
Had
Put
Along
Accent
Got
Dialect
Proved
Arrived
La
American
American Accent
Six
Little
Coach
Working
When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.
Martin Henderson
Become
Difficult
Assumed
Months
Able
Habit
Had
Put
Accent
Dialect
Proved
Arrived
American
American Accent
Six
Coach
Working
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Mason Cooley
Only
Academic
Terms
Another
Understand
Dialect
Refer
Hard
I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.
Michelle Visage
Shakespeare
Had
Sheffield
Dialect
Coach
Who
Company
Royal
I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more colorful.
Rajkumar Hirani
Adding
India
More
Colorful
Like
Makes
Dialect
Dialects
Just
Languages
Many
Playing
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