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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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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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 haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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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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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Every film is like a baby for me; it's like my own child. I feel protective and aggressive each time my film hit theatres.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
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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.
