Different Voices Quotes

• Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Two

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• Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

  Jim Harrison

  Crazy, Fall, Voice

  "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.

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• The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

  Andres Segovia

  Guitar Music, Color, Voice

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• I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Views, Voice

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• Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.

  Patrick Ness

  Stars, Moon, Voice

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• I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?

  Anne Enright

  Thinking, Phones, Talking

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• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  Karen Gillan

  Character, Voice, Robins

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• I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!

  Cristin Milioti

  Couple, Two, Voice

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• If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Voice, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it's just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.

  Guy Ritchie

  Character, Thinking, Voice

  Source: collider.com

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• I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Book, Years, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.

  Rachel Miner

  Girl, Voice, Southern

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• I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

  Axl Rose

  Voice, Different, Six

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• In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

  Carol Gilligan

  Lying, Responsibility, Ties

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• I came from the stage so it was a different kind of acting, or a different arena of acting, and I just loved to do it as a kid. It's really gratifying to get to create these different characters and to get to create different voices and to get to wear different clothes.

  Freddy Rodriguez

  Love, Character, Kids

  "Grindhouse's Action Hero Freddy Rodriguez Interviewed". Interview with Josh Green, www.firstshowing.net. March 30, 2007.

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• My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

  Lily Collins

  Dad, Voice, Laughing

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• I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Voice, Numbers

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• I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'

  Fred Durst

  Voice, Different, Today

  "Fred Durst promises 'brutal' new Limp Bizkit album" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. March 8, 2005.

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• I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

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• I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.

  Nathan Fillion

  War, Book, Reading

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• I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Voice, World

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• Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Distance, Voice, Different

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.

  Nicky Ryan

  Writing, Voice, Interesting

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• Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.

  Liza Donnelly

  Motivation, Inspiration, Voice

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• Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.

  Murong Xuecun

  Voice, Wrath, Offending

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