Voice Quotes
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...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and days! Only days and days? O, the heart of a man! Days and days!' 'But, my dear madam, I had not known you more than a day or two. It was not a full-blown love - it was the merest bud - red, fresh, vivid, but small. It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never returned.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.
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Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.
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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
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This very deep, soothing voice came on, saying: "You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do." I could feel it in every cell of my body, and I immediately realized, there's something here. I could feel my heart rate slow down. I could feel stress melting out of my body.
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I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
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I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
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Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.
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A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
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In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
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For such a time as this I was placed upon the earth. To hear the voice of God and do His will, whatever it is.
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I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime.
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.
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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
