Stephanie Beacham Quotes

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• But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
• I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.
• I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.
• I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
• I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.
• I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out…
• I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very…
• I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.
• My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my…
• Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.
• One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they…
• We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.
• When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within…
• When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things…
• When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay…

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