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" They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn't bleed anymore. "
Teri Garr
Bleed
Head
Hole
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" Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends. "
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" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "
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" You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it. "
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" I thought, 'If I can't be prom queen, I can dance 'Les Sylphide.' "
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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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" I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats. "
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" Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease. "
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" I went to North Hollywood High. I'm the original Val girl. "
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" 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
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" 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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" Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze. "
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" My mother was a role model. "
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" I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are. "
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" 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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" 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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Quality
Movies
" 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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Look
Know
Me
" I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things. "
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Things
Lot
" Joan Collins was the best. She really could sort of pull it off, be really outrageous and never even flinch. "
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Even
" 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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Friend
Career
She
" 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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Minute
Made
Person
" 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
Talking
Community
" I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting? "
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Been
Insane
" I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny. "
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Very
" 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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Towel
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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
" 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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" 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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Step
" 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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City
" 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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Good
Me
" MS doesn't define who I am. "
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Who
Am
Define