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I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#else #everyone #i #life #like

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

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#buried #during #environment #head #judy

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.' ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#call #company #daring #desire #everything

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

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#children #i #i am #novel #second

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 find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#find #hard #i #mantle #many