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It wasn`t exactly a mistake, but if there`s anything I regret, it`s probably having disguised my own native accent. Actors of my generation all tended to speak RP (received pronunciation). Of course, it`s all different now and drama students are encouraged to keep their regional accents and be able to do RP when required. Even at the BBC these days there`s no standardised accent, and I rather think that`s a good thing.

- Ian McKellen

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

- Jonathan Davis

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

- Northrop Frye

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

- Willie Mays

We believe this is a cleverly disguised opportunity for us to grow, and we are growing to meet this challenge.

- Yolanda King

thinly disguised propaganda urging women to be decorative, toe the line and marry (rich).

- Anna Johnson

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

- Adam Comey

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

- Alan Gell

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

- Alex Bean

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

- Alexandra Montaner

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

- Andrea Wong

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

- Charles R. Swindoll

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

- Sri Chinmoy