- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voice Quotes
Every voice carries something different.
These lines move between the literal — a performer's range and technique — and the personal, like speaking up for people who feel unheard. For more first-person reflection, see our Me quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
- Better Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my voice isn't doing what I want it to do, it's crushing in the most heavy way possible.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
- Hearing Aids
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Showrunning is when you're the constant creative voice in the show. For a year-and-a-half, you are working on the scripts, you're fine-tuning them, you're the final say on the edit, the music and the cast.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020