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It's a bit weird for an interview titled "How to Master an Accent" to start with the quote:

> “For me it’s not an accent. I know people who do brilliant accents. But I don’t know how to do that.”

I think that's her way to explain that she doesn't try to use her own words with an accent (like most people would do), but she memorizes the sounds (think IPA) and mouth positions and tries to reproduce that as exactly as possible, even if in some cases the sound means another word in her own accent.

Not really, it explains where she comes from - she doesn't think of an abstract accent, but of a person with that accent

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