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When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.

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• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

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  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

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  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

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  • Bad
  • Trust
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• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

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• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

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• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

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  • You
  • Always
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  • Speak
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  • Great
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  • Life
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• And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

  

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  • Good
  • College
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• There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists.

  

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• When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.

  

  eL Seed
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