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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

Anna Deavere Smith
study sound people

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

Anna Garlin Spencer
sound sweet believe

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Anna Godbersen
sound desire trying

I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.

Anna Kamienska
lasts sound lying

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.

Anna Meredith
gestures pieces sound
Totally girly - love all the childish sounds. by Anna Sui

Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.

Anna Sui
girly sound
It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three... by Anne Bernays

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

Anne Bernays
three sound writing

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

Anne Bishop
sound lying thinking

the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!

Anne Bosworth Greene
horizon sound weather
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelli... by Anne Carson

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

Anne Carson
yelling sound reality

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

Anne Carson
epic pressure sound

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Anne Dudley
voice sound

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

Anne Enright
narrators sound thinking

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

Anne Hathaway
actors sound long

...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

Anne Lamott
essentials sound heart

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
wedding race sound

And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own drum, gave no notice to the rhythm of the other. The sound grew louder and louder until it seemed to fill not just my hearing but all my senses, to be throbbing in my lips and fingers, in the flesh of my temples, in my veins.

Anne Rice
yards giants sound

End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)

Anne Stevens
echoes pounds sound

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

Anne Stevenson
musical sound trying

I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.

Anne Waldman
pages expression sound
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