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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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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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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You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.
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We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
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I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.
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This game is crazy. You're up and down, up and down. When you feel good, you want to be there every time for the team.
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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
