#ld

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

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#hear #last #me #silence #thing

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#entertaining #half #i #more #much

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

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

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#anyone #haven #henry #him #his

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. ↗

— Robert Matsui

#camps #father #i #internment #months

Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#brothers #complete #crisis #family #i

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#apart #back #back up #being #compass

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not? ↗

— Dee Dee Warwick

#i #making #me #my own #own