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" You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline. "

" 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. "

" Someday, I'll make the right connection with the house I'm meant to be in. "

" When you're a kid, you should be a kid. "

" When I was a dancer, I would see that dancers were treated like garbage. I mean like, like extras. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell. "

" 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. "

" I went to North Hollywood High. I'm the original Val girl. "

" 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.' "

" I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us. "

" 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. "

" My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me. "

" I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. "

" I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously. "

" Everyone I tell that I had an aneurysm always says, 'Oh, my cousin died from that.' Well, I didn't, so I'm amazed. I was in a wheelchair, and I had to go to rehab. And now I'm walking! "

" Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life. "

" My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "