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Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.

Cynthia Nixon

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Cynthia Nixon
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: April 9
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Cynthia Ellen Nixon
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There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.
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Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.
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Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.
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I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.
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Make America great again? Right, but now it comes back to us in a completely twisted way. And in some ways they achieve that, or they at least achieve the appearance of that, but now you try and do it again and it's just... it's so out of sync with who we obviously are as a people.
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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
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It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.
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Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.
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I always like to start my morning with a good amount of fruit. I really like pineapple, particularly because of the enzymes that it has. Sometimes I have oatmeal. But if I'm feeling like I really want to be watching my weight more, then I definitely do a protein, like an omelet, scrambled eggs or some smoked salmon.
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My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.
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In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed ... I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.
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