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Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Mira Sorvino

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Mira Sorvino
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 28
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New Jersey
Mira Katherine Sorvino
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I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.
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[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now. I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess.
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