Marlee Matlin Quotes
I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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Genius is never understood in its own time.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.
