Marlee Matlin Quotes
I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
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That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
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My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.
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I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'
