{"author":"Michael J. Fox","author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together. ","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["work","together","differences "],"id":1981,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["learning","disappointment "],"id":4506,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["world","sense of humor","think "],"id":6520,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["funny","woman","idea "],"id":7029,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["me","television","want "],"id":67319,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance......One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["communication","compassion","inspiration","love","priorities","unconditional_acceptance"],"id":80986,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count; always looking up.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["inspirational","inspirational-attitude"],"id":100479,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["inspirational"],"id":109261,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["america","hope","optimism","politics","worldview"],"id":112744,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"},{"text":"After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.","author":"Michael J. Fox","tags":["inspirational","inspirational-life","life","moving-forward","strength","struggle"],"id":115691,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Fox"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}