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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
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Model
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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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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Normal isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.
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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.
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I love body parts, especially hands.
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I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.
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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 was very sexual from a very young age.
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The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It’s how we make rules and why we obey them.
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In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.
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The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.
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Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door
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If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.
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And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.
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