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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
Writer
Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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Restriction
Yearning
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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 highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.
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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
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I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.
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When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.
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I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship it just obviously wasn't right for me.
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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 don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
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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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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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Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.
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I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.
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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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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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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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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 have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.
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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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I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.
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I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
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