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Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

Louis C. K.

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Louis C. K.
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 12
Actor
Cabaret Artist
Comedian
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Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Tecamac Municipality
Louis Székely
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I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I have three sisters, so my community was girls. I have two girls, and my dog is a girl. My dead dog was a girl. I don't know. I guess I've always keyed in on that perspective.
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There's nowhere I won't go. As long as it's horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.
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