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"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."
First

"The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice."
Quality

"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."
Day

"I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers."
Family

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

"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."
Work

"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."
Life

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

"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
Question

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

"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."
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"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."
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"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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Personal Development

"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."
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Personal Development

"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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"Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles."
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"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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"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."
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