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• By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

  Matt Smith

  Silence, Stories

  Source: www.ink-d.co.uk

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• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  Saint Augustine

  Religious, Eye, Men

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• I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Creativity, Talking, Voice

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• I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Sleep, Player

  "Queen of Hip Hop". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Heart, Giving

  "Author interview: Barbara Kingsolver". www.librarything.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just sort of... it can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it. Eventually I'll retire on some level, eventually no one will want to buy my books or a ticket to see me read, it's inevitable that's going to happe

  David Sedaris

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

  Amy Winehouse

  Real, School, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Mother, Son

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• I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

  Bill Burr

  School, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle wind-chimey tinkle, not the crash bang of a million pots and pans.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Should Have, Wind, Appreciate

  "Padma Lakshmi On Her New Jewelry Line (And The Dos And Don'ts Of Bling!)". Interview with Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2009.

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• It's not an option that you have to buy something in my line. You can hang out, take pictures, shoot video, shout out loud all crazy, whatever you want really, because it's not about money for me. I'm happy to do what I do!

  Jason David Frank

  Crazy, Video, Lines

  Source: sciencefiction.com

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• I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.

  James Arthur

  Memories, Writing, Talking

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

  James Arthur

  Reader, Ideals

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

  Chris Pronger

  Trying, Noise, Rooms

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Spiritual, Voice

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• You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Children, Fun, Angel

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• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Topics, Hiding

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• My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

  James Brown

  Crazy, Son, Names

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• Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

  Nicholas Evans

  Knowing, Easy, Hard

  "Fictional character: Tom Booker". "The Horse Whisperer", www.imdb.com. May 15, 1998.

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• When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

  Paul Goodman

  Speech, Serious, Censorship

  Growing Up Absurd ch. 2 (1960)

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• You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

  James Brown

  Knives, Dull, Saying Nothing

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• I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

  James Brown

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

  Lord Byron

  Hymns, Hypocrisy, Vaunt

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Laughter, Laughing, Faces

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