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Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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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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