Quotes by Dana Reeve - Page 1

Mv mother was so literate and literary.
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Literary
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Hope is a real thing. It's not pie in the sky.
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Pie
Sky
Real Thing
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I think the idea of time travel is very seductive.
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Seductive
Time Travel
Time Travel Time Travel
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I would like to record. I would like to do some cabaret acts.
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Cabaret
Acts
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I value my family more than anything. That's always paramount.
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Paramount
More Than Anything
Value
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Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.
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Self-examination
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I'm a very famous wife but I'm still plodding along in my career.
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Plodding
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I thought, if I was going to date an actor, I wanted a real actor.
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Date
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With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.
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Grief
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Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.
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Legacy
Chris
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Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.
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Absence
Home Life
Huge
Void
Chris
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I've learned a lot about grief, that it really is something that goes in cycles.
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Cycles
Grief
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We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.
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Challenges
Joy
Pain
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I believe that the healthy people go to therapy. It is the real lunatics who avoid it.
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Therapy
Believe People Real
Healthy People
Lunatics
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I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
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Expecting
Fairs
Long
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Christopher pushed the boundaries beyond anything anyone could expect from any human being.
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Boundaries
Christopher
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But TV and movie schedules are always easier than a theater schedule, if you have a family.
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Schedule
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Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.
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Public Eye
Thrive
Chris
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I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.
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Prioritize
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There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.
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Disability
Spontaneity
Dealing
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In the mornings I drop my son off at school and then head to work. I am done at work by 2:00 P. M. and can head home.
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Work Home I Am
Work Home Done
Drop
Mornings
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Chris had the unique and rare opportunity to be shown during his lifetime how many friends he has and how much they care.
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Lifetime
Unique
Rare
Chris
How Much
Shown
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Life is full of risks, and you don't want to raise someone who's afraid of taking risks, either physically or emotionally.
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Taking Risks
Emotionally
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I made a vow to Chris when we married that I'd love him and I'd be with him in sickness and in health and I did OK with that.
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Married
Sickness
Vow
Chris
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Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.
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Cancer
Thinking
Tunnels
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Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.
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Optimistic
Luck
Really Pretty
Thinking
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It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one.
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Caregivers
Important
Roles
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You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.
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Realize Life
Stuff
Thinking
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Chris, boy, was he ever resilient, and was he ever someone who would never give up and had tremendous discipline, and he set goals and met them.
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Discipline
Resilient
Chris
Tremendous
Never Give Up
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Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.
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Adversity
Compassion
Determination
Each Day
Overcome
Believed
Christopher
Forward
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When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.
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Giving
Lonely
Purpose
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I took the marriage vows very seriously, as did Chris. You're there - sickness, health - I mean, really. And you don't take those vows until you can say it and mean it.
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Sickness
Chris
Vows
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We have home movies of Chris playing the piano with Will on his lap. One of the things that made my life so full was putting Will to bed and hearing Chris downstairs improvising.
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Improvising
Lap
Life Home Movies
Chris
Downstairs
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Chris and I used to say, when he had his accident, 'Well, this is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to either one of us, but at least we had each other to go through it with.'
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Accident
Chris
Worst Thing
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I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long before his accident, a couple years before. He loved working with Merchant Ivory.
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Ivory
Remains
Accident
Shot
Favorite
Chris
Couple Years
Merchant
Role
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Sacrifice always seems to imply a bitterness attached to it. But I don't feel bitter about the choices I've made. Yes, I sacrifice a job because I made certain family decisions, but I don't regret it.
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Bitterness
Regret
Sacrifice
Attached
Imply
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Superman is a traditional archetype in our culture, this all-powerful but benign doer of good, protector and friend. If he could succumb to the frailties of mortal man, what's to become of the rest of us?
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Benign
Protector
All-Powerful
Mortal
Succumb
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Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.
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Attitude
Choices
Faces
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There are moments when the grief comes bubbling up. The first time I saw Chris's chair empty, that was really hard. And it was hard when I started folding up some of his sweaters that I so imagine him wearing.
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Empty
First Time
Folding
Grief
Imagine
Moments
Sweaters
Bubbling
Chair
Chris
Wearing
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I am working as a co-host on a show called, 'Lifetime Live.' It's on the Lifetime cable network. My co-host is Deborah Roberts. She's a news correspondent with 20/20. We are billed as a news and information show. It's fun.
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Lifetime
Cable
Correspondent
Roberts
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Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
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Optimistic
Grateful
Inspiration
Joy
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There's a formula Chris and I used all the time. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely. It makes me feel better when things are too hard for me.
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Lonely
Purpose
Sorrowful
Time Me Better
Time Better Your
Chris
Opposed
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As a caregiver, I always thought I had empathy for Chris's situation, and certainly one family member's disability affects the whole family dynamic in myriad ways. But as I go through various tests and discomforts and uncertainty about the future that cancer can bring, I feel a strong, visceral connection to what Chris went through.
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Cancer
Disability
Situation
Uncertainty
Visceral
Affects
Certainly
Chris
Connection
Dynamic
Member
Myriad
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I don't live in the city, I don't work in a high-risk environment, and I am not a smoker. So it was never anything that would occur to me that I would get lung cancer, but the more I have learned about lung cancer is that it is becoming much more random, and it is striking women who are under 50 and are non-smokers and not in a risk environment.
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Becoming
Cancer
Environment
High Risk
Risk
Work Women I Am
Work Women Me
City
Lung
Occur
Random
Smoker
Striking
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