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If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write in your own.
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
We have all these ideas and visions, and they're able to come to life, and our voices are being heard, which is really amazing.
We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices.
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent; I want to amplify their voices.
Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.
For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
When I made 'Voices of a Distant Star,' I wanted to make money from making that movie, of course, but that wasn't my major reason.
Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives.
We have to fight twice as hard, three times as hard - not only as conservatives, but frankly, as women - to have our voices heard.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.
When I work with other artists, I really want to bring out the most in their voices and I want to hold myself to the same standard.
Everyone has to work hard, there is no short-cut. If you keep working hard there are a lot of musicians on a lookout for new voices.
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
I was just overcome with the idea that one day I wanted to be one of those voices at the Masters and work for CBS and cover the NFL.
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.
America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.
As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
Everybody has their limitations and hence, we need to look for a range of voices more than the quality of singing in our local talent.
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.
It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.
Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
So much of what blacks and women contend with is centered in how we view, and how the world views, our bodies. Gestures, voices, affect.
I've never lived through a moment in history where people are using their voices and becoming strong advocates for what they believe in.
With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.
All American voices are important, and the FBI's Protected Voices videos and resources will help all Americans protect themselves online.
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
As an outsider, you observe what everyone is saying. Insiders are sometimes too insulated, listening to voices in their own little group.
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.
The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains absolute.
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.
I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.
When you're with your partner, I think, does everyone else sing and do the stupid voices and all that stuff that I do and always have done?