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Mv mother was so literate and literary.
Hope is a real thing. It's not pie in the sky.
I think the idea of time travel is very seductive.
I would like to record. I would like to do some cabaret acts.
I value my family more than anything. That's always paramount.
Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.
I'm a very famous wife but I'm still plodding along in my career.
I thought, if I was going to date an actor, I wanted a real actor.
With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.
Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.
Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.
I've learned a lot about grief, that it really is something that goes in cycles.
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.
I believe that the healthy people go to therapy. It is the real lunatics who avoid it.
I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
Christopher pushed the boundaries beyond anything anyone could expect from any human being.
But TV and movie schedules are always easier than a theater schedule, if you have a family.
Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.
I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.
There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.
In the mornings I drop my son off at school and then head to work. I am done at work by 2:00 P. M. and can head home.
Chris had the unique and rare opportunity to be shown during his lifetime how many friends he has and how much they care.
Life is full of risks, and you don't want to raise someone who's afraid of taking risks, either physically or emotionally.
I made a vow to Chris when we married that I'd love him and I'd be with him in sickness and in health and I did OK with that.
Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.
Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.
It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one.
You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.
Chris, boy, was he ever resilient, and was he ever someone who would never give up and had tremendous discipline, and he set goals and met them.
Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.
When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.
I took the marriage vows very seriously, as did Chris. You're there - sickness, health - I mean, really. And you don't take those vows until you can say it and mean it.
We have home movies of Chris playing the piano with Will on his lap. One of the things that made my life so full was putting Will to bed and hearing Chris downstairs improvising.
Chris and I used to say, when he had his accident, 'Well, this is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to either one of us, but at least we had each other to go through it with.'
I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long before his accident, a couple years before. He loved working with Merchant Ivory.
Sacrifice always seems to imply a bitterness attached to it. But I don't feel bitter about the choices I've made. Yes, I sacrifice a job because I made certain family decisions, but I don't regret it.
Superman is a traditional archetype in our culture, this all-powerful but benign doer of good, protector and friend. If he could succumb to the frailties of mortal man, what's to become of the rest of us?
Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.
There are moments when the grief comes bubbling up. The first time I saw Chris's chair empty, that was really hard. And it was hard when I started folding up some of his sweaters that I so imagine him wearing.
I am working as a co-host on a show called, 'Lifetime Live.' It's on the Lifetime cable network. My co-host is Deborah Roberts. She's a news correspondent with 20/20. We are billed as a news and information show. It's fun.
Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
There's a formula Chris and I used all the time. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely. It makes me feel better when things are too hard for me.
As a caregiver, I always thought I had empathy for Chris's situation, and certainly one family member's disability affects the whole family dynamic in myriad ways. But as I go through various tests and discomforts and uncertainty about the future that cancer can bring, I feel a strong, visceral connection to what Chris went through.
I don't live in the city, I don't work in a high-risk environment, and I am not a smoker. So it was never anything that would occur to me that I would get lung cancer, but the more I have learned about lung cancer is that it is becoming much more random, and it is striking women who are under 50 and are non-smokers and not in a risk environment.