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" I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats. "
Teri Garr
Surgeon
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Brother
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" If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. "
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" You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future. "
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" This new movie, 'Full Moon in Blue Water,' I loved the idea of working with Gene Hackman, who is a great actor, but when I read the script, I threw it right into the trash can, because I didn't like this woman. She was just a doormat. "
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" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "
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" There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good. "
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" I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny. "
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" I resent it when they write the part of a woman who's just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that's how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit. "
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" I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting? "
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" Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from. "
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" I started out in the 1970s doing the Wife, the Bimbo, and the Ditz, and if I somehow get a serious role, they all wanna know the same thing: When are you going back to comedy? "
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" I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it. "
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" My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time. "
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" If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it. "
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" I was trying to work, but I noticed that people, if they had any inkling of the idea that I was sick or had MS... people shunned me. No work after that. "
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Idea
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" I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it. "
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" I think I look pretty good. And I know there are human beings my age who look the way I do. There must be stories about us - not just about people who are young and good-looking. "
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" If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them. "
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" I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline. "
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" I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves. "
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I Am
Happy
" Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.' "
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" I go to Yosemite a lot. To get there, you fly from L.A. to Fresno and rent a car. So I know about Fresno. It looks like the entire city was built in 1946 in three months - all these low California ranch style homes. The whole city looks like that. "
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" I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell. "
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" I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me. "
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" Please, people, don't drink and vote. We'll all pay for that. "
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" I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say. "
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" I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. "
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" There are several drugs out right now that can't stop multiple sclerosis, but they can slow it way down. They also made me puff up like a balloon. So I looked horrible. I hated that. "
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" When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter. "
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