Marlee Matlin Quotes
I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I look formidable.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
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I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.
