Valerie Harper Quotes

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Valerie Harper

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 22, 1940

I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever who have gotten lung cancer were no-time smokers.

Valerie Harper

Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.

Valerie Harper

I have had acupuncture regularly, and I engage in visualization, which is actually an actor's tool, visualizing myself kicking out the cancer, making up scenarios.

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We don't know what's around the corner.

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Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.

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Life is amazing; live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

Valerie Harper

Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left.

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I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's got to mean something to all of us.

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Talk about a woman of a certain age - Pearl Buck was a great prototype of continuing to work. She was in the hospital dying of cancer, and in the next room was her secretary, typing out her next book.

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We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

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I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

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I'm painfully middle class.

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I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

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Life does not owe me a shred.

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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

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As long as you're alive, you can do something.

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I wouldn't give people advice except to share with them what I'm doing, which is, You're alive - stay alive.

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I'm not dying until I do.

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