Quotes About Annette Funicello

#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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#25. Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

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#26. 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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#27. Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

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#28. Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

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#29. I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

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#30. The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

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#31. Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

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#32. Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

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#33. Pain is a part of life ... misery is an option.

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#34. At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

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#35. In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

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#36. I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

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#37. Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

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#38. As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

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