Between ‘Futurama’ and ‘Simpsons,’ I’m able to work with the voices of Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, and the cast of ‘Star Trek.’ It’s great, you know; it’s great to work with such talented people.
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
Most fiction writers are driven to find their own ‘voice,’ but I am more interested in the voices of others.
In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of ‘True Detective’ that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart’s voices.
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
He always describes his characters’ voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They’re grotesques really.
As I’ve been teaching longer and longer, I realize I learn so much from the voices I’m naturally drawn to, the writers I love on an instinctive level – but I also learn so much from the writers that I have to work to grasp.
Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.
My wife, Cristina, is an amazing mother, and I know by the time I get back home, she’s ready for a break. Cristina will say, ‘Enjoy your nap on the plane.’ That’s the most sleep I’ll get after I hear those voices railing, ‘Let’s play Daddy Monster!’
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.
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.
There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.
We want to teach girls of color the skills they need and create a diversity of voices into the tech community.
I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices – they were about my age, but they were doing it.
All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people – a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it – big questions.
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
Through your individual leadership, millions of gun owners across the nation made their voices heard sending an unmistakable message: stop President Barack Obama’s destruction of our liberty and restore our Constitution.
Once you’ve been talked to by voices, it’s not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
When we’re on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.
We must tell girls their voices are important.
As an outsider, you observe what everyone is saying. Insiders are sometimes too insulated, listening to voices in their own little group.
Unfortunately, too few women take the risk of running for political office or assuming positions of influence. As a result, our voices are not part of the conversation yet alone the final decision.
I dedicated my first ‘American Woman’ series to my mother. She and millions in her generation felt they couldn’t use their voices, but they taught their daughters they must use theirs.
I feel like my role is to be one of those voices who reaches the youth.
I was influenced by big, strong voices – writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison.
Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a system, an institution, that still holds tremendous power over whose voices are heard and whose voices are rewarded.
We have to fight twice as hard, three times as hard – not only as conservatives, but frankly, as women – to have our voices heard.
I tried to listen to way too many voices in my first stint as a head coach. The second time around, I know what I want and how I want to do it.
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.
All American voices are important, and the FBI’s Protected Voices videos and resources will help all Americans protect themselves online.
The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.
I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of ‘women supporting women’ and forget that they didn’t lend the same kind of support.
It isn’t that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.
Kerala has been one of the most vocal voices of federalism, and it will remain so.
I get my voice from my mother’s side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
A healthy state encourages many voices – and lots of listening.
There were a small number of voices that said, ‘Darvish only cares about strikeouts.’ Although I may have had strikeouts in my mind, fans, team, teammates and team staff were always my top priority.
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.
Something big is going on. I’m talking about a society that refuses to allow injustice just to persist without making our voices heard and without organizing to bring about effective change through our voting system.
The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women’s voices.
In no culture ever studied have women repeatedly preferred to mate with pear-shaped, low-status, tepid men possessing high-pitched, nasal voices.
Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have angry voices, we have voices of doubt, and we have moments of strength.
I don’t want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
I’ve always been interested in war, but especially its effects on society, which means bringing in the voices of women, which aren’t heard as much in the grand narratives.
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.
I think it’s so important to think about the basic human rights of others and to use our collective voices, minds and bodies to lift those people up and bring about change.
Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.
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.
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.
A lot of the issues today may not affect us personally, but we can’t stay in our comfort zone when it comes to protecting our brothers and sisters. We have to get out there and use our voices for them as well.
Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
I’ve done plenty of phoners for Joel when he’s been too busy. You’ll never know. Our voices sound so similar.
Recognize that the great majority of us aren’t trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it’s not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It’s our stories, our visions and our voices.
Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.
I’ve seen a lot of Black content creators calling for white folks to stop using the voices of Black folks to make TikToks because it’s like digital blackface. That’s valid.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
