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I think there's a God and I know it's not me.
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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If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.
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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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I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.
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When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
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I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.
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By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.
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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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They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out.
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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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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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Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.
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I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.
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I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
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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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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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Acceptance is the key to everything.
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I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
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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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