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“Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.”

Thinking Persons Born Teach Talent Tone Deaf

Author:Anna Camp

“As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.”

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Author:Jenna Fischer

“I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.”

People Knows Writing Voice Ability Musician Doctors Tone Dozen Deaf Fluent Veterinarian Writer's Voice

Author:Paula Fox

“I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.”

Stills I Can Play Wanted Next Rocks Band Singers Tone Rock N Roll Deaf Next Life

Author:Jorja Fox

“I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body.”

Men Want Looks Body Tone

Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.”

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Author:Bernard Goldberg

“When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.”

World Children Reality Born This World Concepts Skins Tone

Author:Neneh Cherry

“I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.”

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Author:Sue Wicks

“When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.”

Ifs Whole Records Too Much Cutting Stage Keys Goes On Notes Tone Over It

Author:Ray Davies

“A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.”

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Author:Emile Hirsch

“With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.”

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Author:Julie Harris

“I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.”

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Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

“I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.”

Thinking World Littles Directors Tone

Author:Famke Janssen

“Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy man. Speaks so quietly that people tend to bend down and adopt the same tone, almost the same voice, whenever they talk to him - watching, you'd think someone's offering to carry out a hit for him when they're just offering him a cup of coffee.”

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Author:Toby Jones

“I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.”

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Author:Masashi Kishimoto

“Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.”

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Author:Adam Kinzinger

“Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.”

Important Listening Conversation Tone

Author:Hoda Kotb