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The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. And it has a transformative power.
Margaret Cho
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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
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San Francisco County
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If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.
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Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.
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I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.
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I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.
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It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.
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When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
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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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I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.
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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.
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Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
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I definitely support free speech.
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Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.
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Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.
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I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
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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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If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
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Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.
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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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Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.
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This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.
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