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" There's people doing whatever the hell they want and getting away with it. "
Teri Garr
Hell
Doing
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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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" 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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" They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn't bleed anymore. "
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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'm always like this with a new movie role. I always get super-defensive and make noises like a rooster, Maybe that's because I spent so much time as a chorus girl. "
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" I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell. "
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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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" Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women. "
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" I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again. "
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" I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are. "
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Impressive
" 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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" My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of the Chorus,' as Marilyn Monroe's father. "
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Movie
Father
" I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career. "
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I Think
Think
" I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things. "
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" In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate. "
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Work
" 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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" 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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Fighting
Television
Say
" There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS. "
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Though
Tests
" When you're a kid, you should be a kid. "
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You
" I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously! "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I did a string of about six or seven Elvis movies, all in a row. He made all of those movies in two years' time. All of them bad. Don't quote me. "
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