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Deaf Quotes

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Dog Mother Stone Deaf Grandmother

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Music Trouble Principal Deaf Hearing

I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.

People World Deaf Excited Educate

Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.

Change Past Me Person Deaf Up

Right after college, I was trying to figure out what to do. Teach? Act? Model? Do PR for the deaf community? And now I'm doing all I dreamed of and more.

Community College Doing Trying Deaf

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Community Me Connection Deaf Knowing

I did my first series lead back in 1991 on a show called 'Reasonable Doubts' and have done many shows with other actors who are deaf. But 'Switched at Birth' is the first TV show where there is more than one actor who is deaf or hard of hearing and who are series regulars.

Back Done Actor Deaf Birth First

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.

World Book Deaf Write Kid Tell

The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.

Today People Deaf Become Arrogant

I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.

Creative People Mom Know Deaf Tone

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Success Deaf Only Applause Listens

With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.

Support Child Deaf Right Hearing

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

Women Men Employees You Deaf See

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Blind Brainy Deaf Will See None

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 early. But I never really wanted to learn.

Stephanie Beacham

Language Learn Early Deaf Never

Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.

Past Giving Worry Security Deaf

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

Life Play Deaf Band Lead Singer

The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.

Culture Homework Television Deaf Did

We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.

Community Culture People Deaf Own

I am a visual person, given that I am deaf.

I Am Person Deaf Visual Given Am

I got my mathematics degree because I wanted to teach deaf children math.

Children Mathematics Teach Deaf Got

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

Life People Think Talking You Deaf

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

Beauty Time Me World Speak Deaf

During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

Friend Father Parents Stubborn Deaf

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