Marlee Matlin Quotes
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.
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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
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So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do. And that's why I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
