- Speed
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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
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did the first proofreading of 'A Brief History of Time,' and when it came to writing my memoir, I consulted many scientific friends so that, contrary to what many critics supposed and were churlish enough to voice, I did actually write the scientific sections myself.
- Nov 07, 2020
My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
- Better Shape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always in much better shape when I am doing a Broadway show because you have the eight shows a week to kind of keep the body clean and perfect in a sense, you know? For instance, I always eat much better when I am in a show because you can't have dairy - for your voice.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in the middle of him... And then you stick an accent on top of that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do know Joe Lansdale has the most extraordinary voice you've ever heard in your life in terms of an accent that, when I started doing it, they had to go, 'Whoa, we need less.' But that's how he talks.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020