Annette Funicello Quotes

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• As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
• As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
• Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
• In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
• You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.
• Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.
• For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
• At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
• I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
• I was not prepared to live as a single parent.
• Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film
• 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…
• I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart
• Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
• Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
• 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…
• The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.
• To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
• When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
• Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

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