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" When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years. "

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" We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you're going to have - then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in. "

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