I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'
I can say, 'I am terribly ...
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You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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