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Vote:   | A smile costs about $240. |
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Vote: | After my daughter was born, I remember dressing her up, putting a little pink bonnet on her and proudly pushing her up Main Street in a stroller. |
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Vote: | Because I'm a person of faith, the spiritual aspects got my attention. Also, the actress in me was delighted to read a show that had not one, but two strong female roles - female angels. I was to audition for Monica, and I very much liked Della Reese, who of course ended up playing Tess. |
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Vote: | Every lemonade stand we have here in Malibu benefits Operation Smile. We live on a very nice street where suddenly you're getting $5 for a glass of lemonade because it's for charity. She has raised quite a bit of money that way. |
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Vote: | Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children. |
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Vote: | I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that. |
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Vote: | I do my best thinking by the ocean. As much as I enjoy church service, I've always felt closer to God by the sea. |
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Vote: | I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked there from time to time. |
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Vote: | I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach. |
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Vote: | I have an 8-year-old, Reilly. She has been very active in her own little world. |
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Vote: | I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune. |
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Vote: | I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college. |
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Vote: | I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam. |
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Vote: | I think people are hungry for things of a spiritual nature. The show hit its stride on a Sunday evening, and that's no accident. |
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Vote: | I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between. |
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Vote: | I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything. |
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Vote: | I'm not fooling myself. I don't expect my faith to turn up on the cover of Rolling Stone anytime soon or expect MTV to run the video. But I know there's an audience for it. And our album is sincere and comes from a well-intentioned place. |
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Vote: | I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids. |
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Vote: | I've actually executive produced five films for the network now, and I've tried to learn a bit more each time. It's something that I certainly would like to involve myself in more in the future, and maybe when the series is ove,r really try and discover that as a career choice. It's great having a voice in the creative process. |
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Vote: | If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness. |
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Vote: | If you heard me sing, you wouldn't ask me if I would ever sing! |
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Vote: | In an interesting way, the operation becomes almost a metaphor for hope and optimism. A little child can have a new face with a smile restored, and suddenly his mother's smile is restored and his father's and the outer family's... and they bring him back to the village and the village is delighted... The ripples and effects of this are fantastic. |
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Vote: | It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion. |
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Vote: | Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation. |
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Vote: | My family still lives in Ireland-and my sisters are always terribly interested in who the next guest star might be. When they got the call that Richard Chamberlain was coming on the show, it was met with squeals of delight. |
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Vote: | Operation Smile invites the local medical teams to try to learn the skills required. Their philosophy is that if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, but if you teach him to fish, he'll eat for his lifetime. They're really trying to show these local doctors how to... perform the operation. |
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Vote: | People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile. |
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Vote: | Richard Chamberlain was a joy to work with-extremely gracious-generous actor. I was thrilled to meet him. I have very fond memories of being madly in love with him during the time of The Thorn Birds. |
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Vote: | Season number seven! It's been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could... and we did! We're terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think. |
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Vote: | The role was written American. Suddenly the dialogue came off the page and came to life in a way that really lent itself to the lyricism of the brogue. It just worked, it really clicked. I knew the role was going to be mine, and sure enough they made an offer. |
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Vote: | The show found a following from the middle of the country. While a lot of the more popular hits start on the coasts, in New York or LA, I think you can trace oursuccess to the Midwest and the South, the small towns and families. We had a very loyal following for many, many years. |
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Vote: | There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. |
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Vote: | This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world. |
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Vote: | We have a rolling gag on the show. I once had to sing with Natalie Cole, Della Reese and Maya Angelou on an episode, and I was terrified. I was trying to carry a tune, and people thought I was trying to be funny. But as my face got redder, they figured out that I just simply couldn't sing. I wasn't trying to be funny! |
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Vote: | We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television. |
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Vote: | We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that. |
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Vote: | We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show. |
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Vote: | What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl. |
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Vote: | You know, it's very deep in everyone's secret longings to be a recording star. I know I used to hold a hairbrush and lip-sync with songs on the radio. So making this album was great fun and allowed me the opportunity to work with a family friend. |