Marlee Matlin Quotes
I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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I'm not a violent person.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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Imagination needs to be fed.
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
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My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
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There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.
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A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.
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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
