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No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
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Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.
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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
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Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.
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Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
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I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.
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I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.
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My philosophy is, murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself. I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.
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I just think women are funnier than men.
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Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
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I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.
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I was lucky. I always had really great friends in my personal life, people always just knew who I was. It wasn't until I was in show business where that sort of changed or shifted at first. I have always had a great support network. I have had a lot of really wonderful, close friends.
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I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.
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My life is anything but typical.
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I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.
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As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.
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I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
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I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.
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I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.
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I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone. I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain. I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.
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