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Marlee Matlin

"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."

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"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."

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Donna Grant

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

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Donna Grant

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

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Donna Grant

"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."

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Donna Grant

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

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Donna Grant

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

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Donna Grant

"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."

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Donna Grant

"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."

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Donna Grant

"Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story."

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Donna Grant

"When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job."

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Donna Grant

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

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Marlee Matlin
"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."

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Marlee Matlin
"I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations."

People

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Marlee Matlin
"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."

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Marlee Matlin
"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."

Feelings

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Marlee Matlin
"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."

Ability

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Marlee Matlin
"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."

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Marlee Matlin
"Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name."

People

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Marlee Matlin
"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."

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Marlee Matlin
"The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure."

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Marlee Matlin
"I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do."

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