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" I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.' "
Teri Garr
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" I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims. "
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" There's always going to be somebody worse off than me. "
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" The Academy not only knew I existed, they thought I was good! "
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" I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me. "
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" I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are. "
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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 remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor. "
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" It doesn't help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on. "
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Life
" I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie. "
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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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Think
People
Good
" 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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" Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life. "
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Enjoy Life
Life
" My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.' "
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Next
Title
" I try to laugh as much as possible and enjoy the company of people who can make me laugh. "
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Me
Laugh
" What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50? "
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Hollywood
Worse
Woman
" 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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You
Want
Play
" If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career. "
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Say
Career
Doing
" I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman's neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in 'Tootsie.' Under Sydney Pollack's direction, 'Tootsie' had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera. "
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Woman
Award
Direction
" I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.' "
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Life
Sick
Life Is A
" My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS. "
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Better
Said
You
" 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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Water
Moon
Loved
" I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously! "
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Kind
Mental
" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "
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" They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn't bleed anymore. "
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Bleed
Head
Hole
" I'd like to play something classical. I'm in the Strindberg society, and we do readings of Strindberg plays. I'd love to do Nora in 'A Doll's House.' And Chekhov. I have been working back to back on what I call 'regular jobs,' so it's hard to do plays. "
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Back
Doll
House
" I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. "
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David
Obvious
Thanks
" Joan Collins was the best. She really could sort of pull it off, be really outrageous and never even flinch. "
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Off
Best
Even
" I get this thing every once in a while that I call 'ESS:' emergency sleep situation. I'll get like lead, really fatigued, and I can't move. "
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Situation
Emergency
Lead
" I don't let Molly watch much television. The only stations I let her watch are PBS and the Disney Channel. The cartoons on the other stations are too violent and filled with obnoxious commercials. "
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Cartoons
Watch
Television
" I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community. "
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Know
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