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" Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out. "
Teri Garr
Idiot
Get
Cure
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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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" People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems. "
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" I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting? "
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" I plan to live to be 120! "
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" Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me. "
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" Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see. "
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" Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life. "
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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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" 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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" How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it! "
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" I don't want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch 'Cheers' because it's very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, 'This is the great show of the universe?' To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes. "
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" I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats. "
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" I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny. "
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" You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it. "
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Just Do It
Head
You
" I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me. "
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Me
" 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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Title
" 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 do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff. "
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" I always say don't be scared. It's not that bad - there's always something worse - and there is definitely life after multiple sclerosis. "
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Say
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Life
" My daughter couldn't wake me up, so they called 911. They rushed me to the hospital. They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain. I was unconscious for a week, and I was in rehab for two months - couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Now I've relearned everything. I'm so happy. "
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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 feel ashamed of how many houses I've actually crept inside of when they were up for sale. I'm not a snoop, but I love looking and imagining. "
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" People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don't watch - I don't watch myself.' I don't look at it. I don't. "
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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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" My mother was a role model. "
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