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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.


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SALLY KELLERMAN I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
SALLY KELLERMAN I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
SALLY KELLERMAN I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
SALLY KELLERMAN My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
SALLY KELLERMAN No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
SALLY KELLERMAN Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
SALLY KELLERMAN He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
SALLY KELLERMAN I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.
SALLY KELLERMAN It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it&...
SALLY KELLERMAN I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.
SALLY FIELD I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know ...
SALLY FIELD I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. T...
SALLY FIELD There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose...
SALLY FIELD I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
SALLY FIELD I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really wa...
SALLY FIELD I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
SALLY FIELD I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don...
SALLY FIELD I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
SALLY FIELD But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave dange...
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