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“American Sign Language is my native tongue. That's the first thing that I learned to communicate with.”

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I started professionally acting in '80.

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I moved out here when I was 40 and guess what, they are not looking for 40-year-olds in Hollywood.

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You're going to see more inclusion in casting in this town, in Hollywood. You're going to see a lot more differently abled people, people…

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You throw all these obstacles in front of people, especially a lot of the deaf people that I've known in my life, you throw…

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What I'm going to make sure happens, if I have anything to say about it, now that people are listening - we need to…

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We all know in the deaf community, there are deaf actors, men and women who are highly, highly skilled, highly intuitive, highly intelligent, that…

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I had so many deaf uncles that instilled in me this feeling of unconditional love, that's how I was brought up in that community.…

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John Williams was a Vietnam veteran and I'm a Vietnam veteran, I did two tours in Vietnam. So knowing that, that he wrote a…

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Everybody in Los Angeles is an actor, or they think they are, or they want to be. They're looking for that shot. And the…

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My father was deafened at the age of six months from spinal meningitis, so he never knew sound at all.

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This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is.

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The Deaf population is not a monolith. It's so layered, so complicated. It's happy, it's sad, it's angry. The gamut of human emotion, amplified.

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I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

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William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a…

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I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

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Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills.

Jake Auchincloss

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Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely…

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Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are…

William Saroyan

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When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear…

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Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

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France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

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New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and…

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