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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

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Camryn Manheim
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 8
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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New Jersey
Sewed
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The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people
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In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it
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Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!
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Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
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I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!
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You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.
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Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.
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I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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