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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.
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.
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.
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.
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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'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.
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
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.
America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
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.
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.
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
All American voices are important, and the FBI's Protected Voices videos and resources will help all Americans protect themselves online.
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.
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.
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.
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 quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.
Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.
As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.
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?
You can start making films as a child. It's become easier to find your groove as a filmmaker, and I'm extremely interested in those voices.
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
I was shy: I sang at home but not in public. My dad's side of the family sang, so I would hear their voices and think mine couldn't compare.
If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.
The voices of economic freedom, personal responsibility, and self-determination are virtually nonexistent in Hispanic communities and media.
I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.
People don't really understand how important our voices are. I think there's a lot of athletes that don't use their power that really should.
In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads.
Everyone has an opinion, and it seems that the negative voices can be the loudest, but I chose to focus on the positive comments from readers.
When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.
You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.
All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.