Todd Young Quotes

I'm from Boston - everyone says 'awesome,' but there are a lot of people in Boston who say 'awesome.'

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

I am Minnesotan.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically 'Texan' identity, one distinct from being 'American.'

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it.

When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

I come here as one of you - an Iowan!

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