Patterned Quotes

(on his British accent in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)) "I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I`m listening to Tony Head (Anthony Head; Giles in "Buffy"), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It`s much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it`s not North London. I`m always afraid that I`m morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he`s from."

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that`s who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we`ve added some extras that people aren`t used to finding on Southwest.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.