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Valerie Harper
American
Actress
Born:
Aug 22
,
1940
Cancer
Life
Live
Me
Think
You
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Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left.
Valerie Harper
Life
Day
You
Mine
Miss
Until
Because
Go
Left
Up
Loved
Chin
Then
Your
Yours
Keep
Funeral
Life is amazing; live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.
Valerie Harper
Life
You
Amazing
Long
Live
Stay
Fullest
There are times when I cry. I'll sit in the chair and feel the depression, let it seethe. Then it starts to go away, and I find myself laughing, saying, 'Well, that was dramatic.'
Valerie Harper
Depression
Saying
Myself
Go Away
Sit
Starts
Dramatic
Laughing
Find
Feel
Cry
Well
Go
Times
Then
Chair
Away
Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.
Valerie Harper
Me
Comeback
Cancer
Worst
Bad
See
Insists
Having
Tenacious
Tour
No-One
Reminds
Performer
Return
Although
Making
Doing
Encore
Very
Going
Wants
Engagement
Who
Mine's called leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. It's incurable. It's terminal. And it's in a tiny space - a huge area all around the brain and up and down the spine. But it's small area where the spinal fluid is. It's microscopic. You can't see it. It isn't lumps that they can say, 'Oh we can zap that.'
Valerie Harper
You
Space
Fluid
Down
Incurable
Mine
Say
Spinal
See
Spine
All-Around
Small
Area
Terminal
Around
Brain
Huge
Up
Up And Down
Microscopic
Oh
Tiny
Where
I love sitting at home. I love laying in bed watching television.
Valerie Harper
Love
Home
Television
Laying
Bed
Sitting
Watching
Watching Television
I have an intention to live each moment fully.
Valerie Harper
Live
Intention
Moment
Fully
Each
Don't waste the time you do have.
Valerie Harper
Time
You
Waste
When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'
Valerie Harper
Good
Day
Morning
You
Wake Up
Cancer
Feeling
Say
Feeling Good
Another
Another Day
How
Wake
Up
Oh
Actors often want to look like they're comfortable. You want to go into an audition saying, 'I'm your gal. I'm what you need.' Yet you don't want to push.
Valerie Harper
Saying
You
Push
Like
Look
Comfortable
Audition
Go
Often
Want
Gal
Your
Actor
Need
I really got the 'Rhoda' flavor from studying my stepmother, Angela, who's Italian, not Jewish. There's really so little difference between the speech patterns and family attitudes of Jews and Italians in the New York area, anyway.
Valerie Harper
Family
Jews
Angela
Area
Stepmother
Studying
Between
New
Attitudes
Got
Italian
Italians
York
New York
Difference
Anyway
Patterns
Little
Flavor
Really
Jewish
Speech
I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
Valerie Harper
Saying
Ego
Out
Some
Got
Forget
Get
Just
Wanted
Worked
Used
Star
Actress
Thing
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
Valerie Harper
Family
You
Whatever
Community
Way
Contribute
Your
As long as you're alive, you can do something.
Valerie Harper
You
Long
Alive
Something
I wouldn't give people advice except to share with them what I'm doing, which is, You're alive - stay alive.
Valerie Harper
You
People
Advice
Alive
Stay
Give
Except
Share
Doing
Which
Them
I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.
Valerie Harper
Funny
Other
Never
Been
Did
Actor
Ever
I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.
Valerie Harper
Happiness
Every
Pleasure
Finding
About
Talking
Curiosity
Interest
Moment
Enjoying
The body is just a rooming house.
Valerie Harper
House
Just
Body
We have a lot of fear around death, and I thought maybe I can help somebody... I want people to be less scared.
Valerie Harper
Death
People
Fear
Thought
Somebody
Scared
Around
Lot
Maybe
Want
Less
Help
I have had a magnificent run.
Valerie Harper
Run
Magnificent
Had
I think you just take each day and get the best out of it and do what you can and have fun.
Valerie Harper
Best
Day
You
Have Fun
Think
Out
Take
Get
Just
Fun
Each
Each Day
The disease I have is quite a rare cancer, and it is located in a limited area - a very widespread area, but narrow. So a lot can happen if the cancer starts getting really aggressive, pressing on parts of the brain and causing me to lose either my speech or my ability to think, etc.
Valerie Harper
Me
Cancer
Rare
Lose
Aggressive
Think
Starts
Located
Pressing
Ability
Area
Parts
Limited
Narrow
Causing
Brain
Lot
Very
Disease
Getting
Quite
Happen
Either
Etc
Really
Widespread
Speech
'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'
Valerie Harper
Word
Tough
Incurable
Terminal
I loved working in the theater.
Valerie Harper
Loved
Theater
Working
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