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I have a remarkably normal life.

Michael J. Fox

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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
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Film Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
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Edmonton
Alberta
Michael Andrew Fox
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I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
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I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.
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Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.
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No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
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I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.
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As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.
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I have now is whenever my kids say, Can you look at this? or Can I ask you something? or Can you come here for a minute? no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, Just a sec. They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing alrea
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I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.
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I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
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Acceptance is the key to everything.
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I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
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When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.
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I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.
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Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.
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When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.
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A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.
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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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If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.
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The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.
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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
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