Top 1200 Narrative Voice Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

When there's no one else look inside yourself -- like your oldest friend -- just trust the voice within -- then you'll find the strength that will guide your way. You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'

...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart of the southern Utah wilderness-then we can hear the voice of our conscience. If we listen to that voice, it asks us to be conscious. And if we become conscious we choose to live lives of consequence.

I think it's that if you don't have the visual, you have to infuse the full personality into the voice. Think of Daffy Duck. I mean, what the heck? I was playing around with the Daffy Duck voice today when I was coming back from driving my kid to school.

I think it's very important to use your voice and use your voice responsibly. But, having said that, I think you should have all the knowledge before you do that.

My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

I am always nervous about doing voice-over work. I'm always clammy and I worry, "What if my voice squeaks? What if I don't deliver it right?" Until you start saying the lines, it's always nerve-wracking, for some reason, and I've never gotten over that.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

I have always had problems with my voice, and the piano helped me believe the song could be bigger than my voice, and I could play with new melodies and things that I couldn't on guitar. It was easier to make the sound fuller and easier to get away with not being as good.

The technology has improved so much so quickly that voice is now an important mechanism in our lives. Artificial intelligence contributes to that, so not only can you now communicate with your devices by voice, but they're now responding more and more creatively and intelligently to what we need.

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

Your little Obama voice: 'Yes you can.' Listen to your inner Obama-voice.

With all the hurts they've been through, they find a loving way and a way to put their mind on something greater. That's what makes a good artist, a good singer: because you can hear the hurt in their voice, and you can hear the love in their voice.

It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.

I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician. He was a literary major, and not only that - he's gifted with a brilliant voice. To me, Don could sing the New York City Yellow Pages and I'd buy it. I just love the sound of his voice.

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I've always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it's always been about the voice. I wanna hear someone just sit by a piano, on a stool, and just sing - and that's it!

A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms.

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

A digital director shouldn't be out front, but a campaign manager's job is to set a narrative.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.

You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.

When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be careful - the black male voice in jazz, whatever you say, is an important voice, because there's a tradition of the music that should be touched on, there's a sound that should be touched on.

It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.

I've come to believe, on the journey of mine, that we have a still, small voice - and that voice does come from God. It's there to bring us comfort and to bring us guidance with everything.

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.

In reality, girls make mistakes, and it's not fair to keep presenting this narrative that they're perfect.