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I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I felt like they really got me. There was one person who was sort of the one in my life that really got me.In general, I felt a little bit on the outside and not totally included. There was a period of time when we were moving around a lot. So I couldn't really hold on to a certain set of friends. And so that was a little bit difficult.

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I've personally been on the outside sometimes. But I was - I personally was never persecuted especially in the way in which sharing my own experience…

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At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience.

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I think what I've learned from working on "Moonlight" is we see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

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What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope of organically sharing my gifts…

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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

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I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundar…

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I think how strict my mother's home could be with my mom and my stepfather, there was a fluidity and freedom in my dad's existence that I enjoyed whe…

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