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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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Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
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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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Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.
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I did a lot of fast talking as a youth I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.
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You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.
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When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
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Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.
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You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.
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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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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
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I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.
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I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.
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Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.
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I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!
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Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.
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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 don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
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I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
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People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
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If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
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I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.
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