Mary Tyler Moore
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"Mary Tyler Moore" is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms. Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Dick Van Dyke Show#Characters/Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66). She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1967's Thoroughly Modern Millie and 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was very different from the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Moore has been active in charity work and various political causes, particularly the issues of animal rights and diabetes mellitus type 1. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes early in the run of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She also dealt with alcoholism, which she wrote about in her first of two memoirs. In May 2011, she underwent elective brain surgery to remove a benign meningioma.

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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I can't believe it's going to be 8 feet tall, ... I just hope it's vertical and not horizontal.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around... well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby.

I think it's going to be very difficult for the people in Congress to listen to these children tell them what it's like to live with a chronic disease like diabetes and not remember it.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.

These women are certainly trailblazers.