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"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

"Quality is better than quantity."

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."

"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
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"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."

"Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth."

"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."

"When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not."

"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?"

"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me."

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

"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
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