#mo

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. ↗

— Diana Ross

#child #even #i #mother #single

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#being #being famous #doing #gets #sometimes

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #i do #literally #me #paint

I have been no more than a medium, as it were. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #medium #more #than #were

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #creative #difficult #ever #first

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#else #everybody #everybody else #i #like

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#adventurous #being #cases #daring #guess

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#be true #business #cave #could #deaf

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#differences #dollar #follow #guaranteed #i

Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#different #differently #effort #every #into