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" You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do. "

Mary Tyler Moore

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Mary Tyler Moore

" There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg. "

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" Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant. "

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" I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that. "

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" Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. "

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" I know the food groups that I like to have and are good for me and those that I have to stay away from. And so, I don't need to know exactly what I'm going to eat, but I take my insulin probably 20 minutes before I'm going to sit down. "

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" When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this. "

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" No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky. "

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" I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts. "

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" Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system. "

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" I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly. "

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" And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly. "

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" Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves. "

Mary Tyler Moore

" I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted. "

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" Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them. "

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" No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard. "

Mary Tyler Moore

" But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them. "

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" I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy. "

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" Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today. "

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" I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that. "

Mary Tyler Moore

" Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up. "

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" And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura. "

Mary Tyler Moore

" I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. "

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" Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it. "

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" And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character. "

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" I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes. "

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" A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. "

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" It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine. "

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" The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner. "

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" And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times. "

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