#deaf

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. ↗

— Loretta Young

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

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But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant. ↗

— Richard Masur

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Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. ↗

— Richard Masur

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I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community. ↗

— Richard Masur

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The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break. ↗

— Richard Masur

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At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

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