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It's About How You Exist As A Person In The World, And The Idea That Your Work Is More Important Than You As A Person Is A Horrible, Horrible Message. I Always Think About A Little Gay Boy In Wisconsin Or A Little Lesbian In Arkansas Seeing Someone Like Me, And If I Cannot Be Open In My Life, How On Earth Can They?

-Alan Cumming

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It's About How You Exist As A

Alan Cumming

It's About How You Exist As A Person In The World, And The Idea That Your Work Is More Important Than You As A Person Is A Horrible, Horrible Message. I Always Think About A Little Gay Boy In Wisconsin Or A Little Lesbian In Arkansas Seeing Someone Like Me, And If I Cannot Be Open In My Life, How On Earth Can They?

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