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Valerie Harper
American
Actress
Born:
Aug 22
,
1940
Cancer
Life
Live
Me
Think
You
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Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day.
Valerie Harper
Day
Live
Until
Go
Funeral
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
Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.
Valerie Harper
Life
Celebrate
Power
Beauty
Wanted
Sweetness
Really appreciate the sunset as you're driving home, cursing all the terrible drivers on the road. Be where you are when you're there rather than out there in the future or back there in the past.
Valerie Harper
Future
Home
You
Sunset
Cursing
Past
Back
Out
Rather
Drivers
Driving
Road
Terrible
Than
Where
In The Past
Really
Appreciate
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
Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.
Valerie Harper
Character
You
Something
Rising
Knowing
Occasion
Deal
Builds
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 really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
Valerie Harper
Death
Day
Before
Know
Passage
Go
American
Afraid
Want
Us
Really
Less
Funeral
I love sitting at home. I love laying in bed watching television.
Valerie Harper
Love
Home
Television
Laying
Bed
Sitting
Watching
Watching Television
I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.
Valerie Harper
You
Sense Of Humor
Comedy
Humor
Sense
Think
Drama
Pretty
Issue
Same
Whether
Much
It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.
Valerie Harper
Important
Community
Membership
Menopause
Up
Hang
Human
Really
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
I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's got to mean something to all of us.
Valerie Harper
Constitution
Rights
Women
Equality
Human Rights
Gays
Our
About
Blacks
Strongly
Something
Felt
Always
Got
Very
Human
Mean
Us
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
Stop working so hard at being interesting and focus on what's outside yourself. There are universes out there that need to be explored. And, an interested person is extremely interesting.
Valerie Harper
Yourself
Focus
Extremely
Out
Outside
Person
Stop
Being
Interested
Interesting
Working
Explored
Hard
Need
Universes
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
Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.
Valerie Harper
Hype
Crippled
Bad
Shameful
Accept
Aging
Media
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'm not dying until I do.
Valerie Harper
Until
Dying
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