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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
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Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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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.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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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.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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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.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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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.
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