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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.
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- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to the executive responsibility of handling and managing the government, the president has an important voice that sets the tone for much of our national discourse.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.
- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't hear my own voice as others do, so I don't know.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.
- Honey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try and make the strongest ginger tea with manuka honey to keep my voice in shape.
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- Nov 07, 2020