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I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
Comedian
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Voice Actor
San Francisco County
California
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