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“I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.”
“Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.”
| Eddie Albert, Actor (1908) |
| Kingsley Amis, Novelist (1922) |
| Philip James Bailey, Poet (1816) |
| Robert Barany, Scientist (1876) |
| Glen Campbell, Musician (1936) |
| Paul Davies, Writer (1946) |
| Larry Elder, Journalist (1952) |
| Janet Evanovich, Writer (1943) |
| Henry Fielding, Novelist (1707) |
| Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer (1854) |
| Ansel Adams, Photographer (1984) |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Politician (1908) |
| Stephen Lawrence, Celebrity (1993) |