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"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."
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"Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them."
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"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."
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"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."
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"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
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"It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style."
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"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"
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"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."
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"Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them."
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"We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them."
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"We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before."
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"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."
Time
"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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"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
"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."
Ability
"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
Work
"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
"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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"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 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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"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."
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