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Mary Wesley

"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."

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"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."

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"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car."

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"So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills."

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"We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant."

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"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle."

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"I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go."

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"So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better."

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"There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car."

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"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."

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"I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out."

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"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
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"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
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"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it."
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"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
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