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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

"When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass."

"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong."

"If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric."

"An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens."
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"My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities."

"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."

"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."

"The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by."

"It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way."

"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people."

"I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct."

"Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV."
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