Teri Garr Quotes

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Teri Garr

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 11, 1944

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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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.

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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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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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There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

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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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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.

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MS doesn't define who I am.

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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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When one woman found out I had multiple sclerosis, she said to me, 'My heart bleeds for you.' I said to her, 'Well, my heart bleeds for you, because you're an idiot.'

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I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

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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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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.

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I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.

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I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me.

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Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

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

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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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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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I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.

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