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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I'm just an actor.
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Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
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I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME.
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And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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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.
