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" I don't mind talking about my dad because he's such a good dude. "
Max Winkler
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" I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues. "
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" If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments. "
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" I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.' "
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" My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together. "
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" I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware. "
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