Marlee Matlin Quotes
We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,' but there's all kinds of stuff I can do.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
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It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
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I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.
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We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,' but there's all kinds of stuff I can do.
