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" My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time. "
Teri Garr
Real
Time
Mother
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" What's happening to me is I'm still happy and functioning, being able to listen to music, see good movies, read good books. What else is there that I can't, you know, I mean, I'm OK. "
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" I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things. "
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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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" 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 had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again. "
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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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" You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. "
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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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" 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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" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "
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" 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
" There's always going to be somebody worse off than me. "
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Always
Going
" I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me. "
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Read
Me
" 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
" 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
" Having to manage fatigue is something I and many people with MS have to deal with, and heat is no friend to my MS, either; it can be devastating. "
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Friend
Fatigue
" There's people doing whatever the hell they want and getting away with it. "
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Doing
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" I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress. "
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Face
Work
Step
" I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me, 'What's your favorite movie?' And I never know what to say. "
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Judge
Me
Time
" I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. "
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Step
More
Government
" 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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View
You
Good
" You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it. "
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Head
You
" A chiropractor wishes he were a doctor, just like those people outside Spago wish they were actors. "
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Wishes
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" God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us. "
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Us
Yes
" What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50? "
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" With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do. "
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" The whole MS stuff put the kibosh on my career. And I sort of let it go. I even have a friend who went to CBS and said, 'I want Teri Garr to be in this series,' and the head of the network said, 'Oh no, she's got MS.' "
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She
" Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag. "
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Waiting
You
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