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When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

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I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

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When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

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There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

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I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

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By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

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It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

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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.

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I learned a long time ago from when I did 'Seinfeld' never to take anything seriously, and to be part of the joke is the best way to show what a good sport I was.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: August 24th, 1965

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