Marlee Matlin Quotes
When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.
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I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.
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You can't take it on that you're responsible for somebody else's well-being, but you can be positive and bring them up.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.