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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.
Camryn Manheim
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Camryn Manheim
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 8
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The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.
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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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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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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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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 think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on
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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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