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I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.
Michael J. Fox
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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Michael Andrew Fox
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No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.
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I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.
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In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
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You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.
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When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
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Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?
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I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
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Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.
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I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
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Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', I CAN handle the truth.
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If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.
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So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.
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I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
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Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.
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Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.
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One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.
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I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing and me saying, Me, too. That's our reality. We have no control over it.
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