#ay

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#brady #bunch #chicago #deaf #despite

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#good managers #guys #i #lot #managers

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #hearing #hearing aids #i #implant

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#always #meaningful #more #seems #than

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#always #around #attitude #car #carry

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one. ↗

— Robert Matsui

#amends #apologize #back #countries #few

Looking back now, thinking about that moment in the lights, with my heart pounding, Oscar in my hand, all I can say is I am grateful and humbled - still to this day. Next to marrying my husband and the birth of my children, it is one of the best days ever. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#am #back #best #birth #children

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

#communicating #first #first time #how #i

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#best #child #comes #feeling #head

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed. ↗

— Francis Maude

#days #god-given #god-given right #great #known