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It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything. -- Arnaud Desplechin
It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time. -- Dick Cavett
The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice. -- Dave Holland
To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice. -- Charlie Trotter
I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice. -- Megan McCafferty
You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice. -- Maeve Binchy
It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are. -- Wanda Sykes
But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist. -- Edward Burns
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in. -- Louise Brown
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the sound; you are the sound. -- Seung Sahn
Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it! -- Michael Morpurgo
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice. -- Ben Harper
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice. -- Jeannette Walls
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes. -- Dave Eggers
I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs. -- Justin Long
You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon. -- John Twelve Hawks
I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down. -- Elmore Leonard
Believe in the power of your own voice. -- Al Gore
I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God -- Rumi
You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice, -- Maeve Binchy
Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it. -- Jayne Cortez
Speak with your own voice and be as unique as you possibly can. -- John Dyer Baizley
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. -- Allen Ginsberg
If you listen to your own voice, unknown friends will come and seek you. -- Megan McDonald
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Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said. -- Erica Jong
You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice. -- Sonia Friedman
There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice. -- Po Bronson
Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves. -- Leon Brown
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness. -- Allen Ginsberg
It's so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. -- John Lasseter
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you. -- Stephen Covey
Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice. -- Avi
There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you. -- Jane Fulton Alt
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all. -- Robin Williams
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice. -- Renee Olstead
Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice. -- Stephen Covey
Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle. -- Kano Jigoro
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. -- Amy Tan
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound. -- Seung Sahn
When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that. -- Tom Waits
Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better. -- Al Gore
When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice. -- Alan Ladd
Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others. -- Charlotte Eriksson
I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within. -- Danae Elon
When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth. -- Eric Clapton
Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you. -- Neil Young
When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice. -- Michele Cassou
Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices. -- Khalil Gibran
Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated. -- William Zinsser
Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it. -- Maria Shriver
I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice. -- Dahlia Lithwick
All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself. -- Isaac Marion
The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. -- Nancy Lopez
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all. -- Erica Jong
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The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it. -- Cliff Richard
When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters. -- Jason Reitman
I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice. -- Markus Zusak
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. -- John Burroughs
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. -- John Burroughs
To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know? -- Corey Taylor
Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected. -- Frederick Buechner
Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar. -- Maria Shriver
You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something. -- Jon Voight
When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice. -- Malorie Blackman
Do your own thing. Speak in your voice. -- Dylan Moran
Be who you are. Find your own voice. Lead from the heart -- Dave Carpenter
You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out. -- Kathy Mattea
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about. -- Yahoo Serious
Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice. -- Sara Zarr
The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own. -- Mignon McLaughlin
May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears. -- silent lotus
The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own. -- Anker Frankoni
Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best. -- Nanci Griffith
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. -- Steve Jobs
If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone. -- John J. Geddes
Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear -- C. S. Lewis
Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice? -- Dana Rosemary Scallon
Opinions of others may temporary influence your decisions.But you ought to follow your own inner voice. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination. -- Larry Flynt
If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life. -- Wayne Dyer
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own. -- Mary Oliver
If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you. -- Dale Carnegie
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe. -- Blaise Pascal
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it. -- Bridgit Mendler
Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you're entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice. -- Tim Waterstone
I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections. -- Cher
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win. -- Joni Mitchell
If you get mad about how your voice sounds when it comes out of your own mouth, it's not really my fault. Go ahead and be yourself. -- Samantha Bee
Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely. -- Christine Caine
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality. -- Thom Mayne

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