Top 13 Received Pronunciation Quotes
#1. At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'
Ray Winstone
#2. If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.
Charles Saatchi
#3. Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those
Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose!
All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see
's been dubbed by [Us] into RP,
Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us]
your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.
Tony Harrison
#4. The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists. I've
Adam M. Grant
#6. You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.
Tom Winton
#7. In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
Bernard Bailyn
#8. Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
Sam Francis
#10. I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's.
John Fowles
#11. The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
Ezra Stiles
#12. There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
Amity Shlaes
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