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Portia de Rossi

"When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."

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Amber Hurdle

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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Amber Hurdle

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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Amber Hurdle

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

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Amber Hurdle

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

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Amber Hurdle

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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Amber Hurdle

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

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Amber Hurdle

"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."

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Portia de Rossi
"When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name."

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Portia de Rossi
"I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it."

Gay

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Portia de Rossi
"I was very sexual from a very young age."

Age

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Portia de Rossi
"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."

Movies

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Portia de Rossi
"My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me."

Sexuality

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Portia de Rossi
"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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Portia de Rossi
"I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that."

Mind

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Portia de Rossi
"It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine."

Life

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Portia de Rossi
"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."

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Portia de Rossi
"I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality."

Sexuality

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