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Marlee Matlin

"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."

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Donna Grant

"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."

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Donna Grant

"Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour."

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Donna Grant

"CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."

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Donna Grant

"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."

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Donna Grant

"In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?"

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Donna Grant

"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."

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Donna Grant

"And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation."

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Donna Grant

"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."

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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."

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

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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
"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."

Corporate

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Marlee Matlin
"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."

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Marlee Matlin
"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 they can, just differently."

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Marlee Matlin
"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."

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Marlee Matlin
"I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha."

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Marlee Matlin
"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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