Marlee Matlin Quotes

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

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• Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

  

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

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• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

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• All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

  

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• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

  

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• You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.

  

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• I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

  

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• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

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• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  

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• The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

  

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• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

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• Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

  

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• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

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• If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

  

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• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  

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• The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

  

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• I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted.

  

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• Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

  

  Marlee Matlin
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