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Shel Silverstein Poet, Songwriter, Author
Voice

"I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake--forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck--'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook--he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? Your're sure? Okay then friends, A salad's what I'll eat." They looked at me. "Oh,no," they said, "The owner is a cabbage head."

Mistake Voice Doors
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Voice

"The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly."

Spiritual Feelings Voice
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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
Voice

"If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say."

People Voice Records
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
Voice

"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."

Voice God Imagination
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Voice

"The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters."

Character Different Voice
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Lin Yutang Writer
Voice

"Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead."

Running Voice Laughter
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John Burroughs Naturalist, Writer
Voice

"Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that."

Two Voice Keys
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John Green Author, YouTuber
Voice

"I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws."

Voice Water Hipster
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Voice

"It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak."

Voice Blue Weed
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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
Voice

"Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice."

Voice Style Attention
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Voice

"In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love."

Heart Voice Silence
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Voice

"Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name."

Names Voice Sleep
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