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" I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't. "
Jordan Gavaris
World
Me
I Am
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" I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though. "
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" I hope that one day, the world gets to a place where you don't need to politicize your sexuality any more than someone needs to politicize their race - that we can just act and we can exist in this Zeitgeist, telling stories about one another. "
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" The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate. "
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" I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people? "
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