"I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending."

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When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.

— Karen Abbott