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By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

Christopher Reeve

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Christopher Reeve
Age: 52 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 25
Died: 2004
Died: October 10
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
New York City
New York
Christopher D'Olier Reeve
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A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.
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The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.
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We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.
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Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.
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I remember telling a neurosurgeon, Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset.
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Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
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I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
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It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
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All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.
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I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.
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When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.
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I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.
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Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet in the commercial world to show that. Movies aren't really made about classical people so much any more.
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A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
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In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.
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Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
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In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.
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America is better when all of us take care of all of us.
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