Marlee Matlin Quotes
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.
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In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
