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fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.

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Camryn Manheim
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 8
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Caldwell
New Jersey
Women
Slow
Littles
Wake
Little
Large
Always
Weight
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Accommodating
Clothes
Philanthropy
Fashion
Cash
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Fats

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If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.
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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 think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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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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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 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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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 have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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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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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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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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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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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities
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The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!
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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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