Italo Calvino Quotes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
M. H. Abrams -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
Nancy Pelosi -
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Fede Alvarez -
I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
Larry Wilmore -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
Sam Hunt -
My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.
Gary Wright -
If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller.
Vijay Sethupathi -
I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man's voice, and he was truly versatile.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
Barack Obama -
Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
Zac Posen
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
Damon Lindelof -
My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.
Bam Margera -
We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
Tatiana Maslany -
I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
FKA twigs -
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
Bea Arthur -
Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
Ray Bradbury -
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
Halle Berry -
Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.
Yair Lapid -
I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
Samuel L. Jackson -
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Italo Calvino