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True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else it's about being better than you used to be.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
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I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
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I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
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My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.
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I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.
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