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The voice you hear, is not my speaking voice. But my mind's voice. I have
not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why. Not even me. My father says it is a
dark talent, and the day I have taken into my head stop breathing, will be my last. Today he
married me to a man I have not yet met. Soon my daughter and I shall join him in his own
country. My husband said my muteness does not bother him. He writes - God loves stoned
creatures, so why not he? We are good he has God's patience. For silence affects everyone in
the end. The strange thing is I don't think myself silent. That is because of my piano. I
shall miss it on the journey.
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No wonder Jane Campion had some reservations when Holly Hunter sought the central role in The Piano. Hunter had established herself as a tiny fireball of energy, Southern abrasiveness, and talk, talk, talk. She was pretty, yet she easily offered the look of a modern Southern shopping-mall belle. But Hunter created the severe, less-than-dainty look of a nineteenth century woman repressed in nearly everything except silent pride. She delivered a stunning performance, and in doing so she expanded her own horizons and won the Oscar. Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, as the youngest of seven children in 1958. She studied at Carnegie Mellon. Her debut was in The Burning (81), after which she played on TV in Svengali (83); Razing Arizona (87); getting her first best actress nomination in Broadcast News (87); repeating a stage success in Beth Henley's Miss Firecracker (89); Animal Behavior (89); getting an Emmy as «Roe» in Roe v. Wade (89); Always (89); Once Around (91); Crazy in Love (92); very funny and Oscar-nominated as the secretary in The Firm (93); and brilliant in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (93); Home for the Holidays (95); Copycat (95); Crash (96).
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