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I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone. Olivia Newton-John ocean animal men I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling. Olivia Newton-John nice feelings years The idea is to encourage men to go with their wives and screen. So, if the wife is going to go and do her screening, then the man can go and do his baseline screening, too. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. Olivia Newton-John cancer men ideas There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my mother wasn't too thrilled. She wanted me to go to university and get a degree or do something, and my father, he liked opera so he wasn't too thrilled either, because he wanted me to be an opera singer and I didn't have - as he said, I don't really have the strength to do that. Olivia Newton-John mother math father I'm an 18-years thriver, I call myself, not a survivor, because I feel like I'm in thriving my life even better than I ever have, and I want to encourage other women that are going through this journey that here I am. Olivia Newton-John journey here-i-am years I'm a great proponent of it, for general health, for pain, for sleep, for anxiety, i really believe it is important in my journey. Olivia Newton-John health-news Im so lucky that Ive been through this three times and Im still here. Olivia Newton-John entertainment It was very hard ; Patrick McDermott was lost at sea, and nobody really knows what happened. Olivia Newton-John entertainment It’s human to wonder. But you know, those are the things in life you have to accept and let go. Because whenever you go through difficult times, there’s always those concerns. Olivia Newton-John entertainment I'm not a fortune teller, i don't think anyone could have imagined a movie would go on almost 40 years and would still be popular and people would still be talking to me about it all the time and loving it. It's just one of those movies. I'm very lucky to have been a part of it. It's given so many people pleasure. Olivia Newton-John top-news It's expected! i do four songs from the movie and the rest of the show is my other life. I've had many lives in music. I've had country when when I started, then I crossed over into pop. I had 'Xanadu' and 'Grease,' many songs in between. I feel very grateful. I have such a large repertoire to choose from. Olivia Newton-John top-news I love to sing, it's all I know how to do, that's all I've ever done since I was 15, so it's my life. I feel very grateful that I can still do it and people still come to see me. I wouldn't be doing it if that wasn't the case, so I feel very lucky. Olivia Newton-John top-news My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend. Olivia Newton-John family mother father son