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You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Rose McGowan

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Rose McGowan
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 5
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Rose Arianna McGowan
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I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own...
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My whole family is very art-based. My sister runs a gallery, my other sister works for PACE in New York, my other sister is a sculptor. I'd say the ending one is me because that's the artist and the artist feels a lot.
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I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.
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The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.
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I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.
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Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage and their rage is their masculinity being threatened. We're scared for good reason.
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Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.
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Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal . . . I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival.
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A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.
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People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.
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One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.
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I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.
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The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what.
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I'd never even seen orange cheese. I mean, who decided to make that orange? And so there was something different about me that they wanted to crush. I don't think it had anything to do with my physicality, but every single day in school it was, You're the ugliest thing I've ever seen.
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It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.
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From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.
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I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.
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