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I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
Actress
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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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Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
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Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
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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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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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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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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
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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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At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, Marry me!, very loud.
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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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Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.
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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 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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True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else it's about being better than you used to be.
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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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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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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
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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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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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