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| 1. | Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s. |
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| 2. | Annette McLeod was an outsider. Kids saw something of themselves in her as she struggled to be understood. |
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| 3. | As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family. |
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| 4. | As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope. |
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| 5. | As my balance has worsened, I've found it more difficult to walk on hard surfaces. |
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| 6. | At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs. |
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| 7. | Being famous didn't in any way hamper my being a typical teenager when it came to boys. |
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| 8. | By my teens I had decided to quit show business as soon as I was married. |
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| 9. | Canada has double the rate of MS the United States has. |
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| 10. | Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think. |
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| 11. | For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. |
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| 12. | For most of the kids, getting discovered by the Disney people and brought to Los Angeles to tape the show was the thrill of a lifetime. |
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| 13. | Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes. |
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| 14. | I always considered myself a dancer before anything else. |
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| 15. | I began my career at the age of 12 almost by accident. |
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| 16. | I hate regrets, so I pushed the fear aside. |
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| 17. | I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. |
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| 18. | I made no films in 1959, instead concentrating on my recording career. |
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| 19. | I never went anywhere without my gloves. It may have looked a little odd at first, but this was the '50s. |
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| 20. | I never worried; I knew that when the time was right, my true love would arrive. |
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| 21. | I spent a lot of time worrying about whether I could handle the rigors of touring and facing a live crowd every night. |
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| 22. | I still can't understand how you can see a group of people day in and day out for several months, get to know them, then never hear from them again. |
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| 23. | I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did. |
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| 24. | I think girls liked me because my life resembled theirs in so many ways. |
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| 25. | I try to see the best in people and in life. I've been blessed. |
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| 26. | I was being offered scripts that were unacceptable to me. I was not a good enough actress to be something I wasn't, or to do things I wouldn't do otherwise. |
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| 27. | I was not prepared to live as a single parent. |
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| 28. | I'd never find a work environment as safe and supportive as the one I'd known at Disney. |
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| 29. | I'm a little leery of anyone who claims to have all the answers. |
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| 30. | I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man. |
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| 31. | I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart. |
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| 32. | If a mother ever got caught leaving the lot during a workday, her child's contract would be canceled immediately. |
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| 33. | In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. |
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| 34. | In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down. |
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| 35. | It's safe to say that I was a teen role model. |
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| 36. | Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock. |
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| 37. | Late one evening in 1976, the room grew dark and started spinning and I heard bells that sounded so real I had to cover my ears. Everything went black. |
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| 38. | Life is forever going to change, you know? |
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| 39. | MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. |
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| 40. | Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame. |
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| 41. | Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today. |
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| 42. | Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film. |
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| 43. | Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside. |
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| 44. | Mr. Disney was adamant that the show not talk down to kids. |
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| 45. | My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club. |
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| 46. | Of all my films, Babes in Toyland is my favorite. |
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| 47. | Of all the places my work had led us, Italy still stands as out as our favorite. After all, we are Italian. |
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| 48. | Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother. |
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| 49. | Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters. |
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| 50. | One of the best parts of the tour was getting to see these great performers work close up. |
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| 51. | Some people thought the movies were kind of kitschy, and part of the appeal was simply laughing at us. |
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| 52. | The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down. |
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| 53. | The Mickey Mouse Club premiered on Monday, October 3, 1955. |
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| 54. | The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. |
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| 55. | The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters. |
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| 56. | Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting. |
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| 57. | There had never been a divorce in either of our families. After years of growing apart, I had to admit that my marriage was ending. |
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| 58. | There were few ways to promote a single, except for appearing on Dick Clark's show or Ed Sullivan. |
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| 59. | Thousands of concerned citizens, police chiefs, and religious leaders called rock 'n roll garbage and blamed it for everything. |
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| 60. | To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. |
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| 61. | Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. |
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| 62. | We didn't know much about Walt Disney or his studios. |
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| 63. | What would people think of me? I didn't want to feel their pity. |
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| 64. | Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. |
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| 65. | Whatever dreams I have wished have come true. |
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| 66. | When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change. |
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| 67. | Working on my first feature film, The Shaggy Dog, was very exciting. |
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| 68. | You have to remember that a theme park of the type and size Mr. Disney envisioned simply did not exist. |
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