Annette Funicello Quotes & Sayings

#1. As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

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#2. You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.

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#3. I am the creator of my reality

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#4. To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

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#5. MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

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#6. The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

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#7. Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

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#8. 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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#9. Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

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#10. For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

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#11. 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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#12. The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

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#13. My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

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#14. 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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#15. I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.

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#16. You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.

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#17. I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

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#18. Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

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#19. Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

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#20. Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

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#24. 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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