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ventriloquist

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One who practices, or is skilled in, ventriloquism.

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My mother is a ventriloquist – but not professionally. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father. Wendy Liebman

I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act. Aaron Sorkin

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. Alexander Theroux

I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist does - half-himself, half the dummy on his knee. Jim Henson

No, because I am not a ventriloquist. Russell Banks

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y. Jeff Dunham

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