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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

Natasha Lyonne

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Natasha Lyonne
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: April 4
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