#de

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#i #i can #image #integrate #mouth

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

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#family #girl #i #older #older brothers

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#been #continued #couple #despite #had

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

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#extravagant #four #large #living #modestly

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 handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#ear #handicap #mind

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now. ↗

— Jordyn Wieber

#feeling #gold #gold medal #happiest #i