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"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."
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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"
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"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."
Father
"Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV."
Love
"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."
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"So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people."
Life
"I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word."
Thought
"It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you."
Love
"When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds."
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"Almost everything I do is related to being fat."
Being
"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school."
College
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