Marlee Matlin Quotes
I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
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Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
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We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
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What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.
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Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
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Make your work your play and your play your work.
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Whatever I do is out of love.
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Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.
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The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.
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Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.
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I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
