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" Everybody is doing the same old thing. "
Missy Elliott
Old Thing
Everybody
Doing
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" I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer. "
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" If I'm paying people, and they're not handling my business right, I have to check them. 'Cause sometimes you're nice, and people don't jump on what they're supposed to do, but if you go in there screaming at everybody - 'Look, why aren't my posters up?' or 'Why wasn't my single out on this day?' - then they jump right on it. "
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" There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on. "
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" My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. "
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" I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss. "
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" No, I'm a flirtatious person; I'll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I'm so into the music, and I'm in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That's not an exaggeration. "
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" My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone. "
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" Music is a male-dominated field. "
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" I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jennifer Lopez, like I'm going to get married. "
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" I don't want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but 'The Rain' is hot. "
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Hot
Want
" I love to see women just have on their own, and you watch the guys do it all the time. They go out on the road with each other - probably don't even like each other, but they going to get that money. "
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Time
Road
Love
" I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids. "
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Most
Want
" I want to be cutting-edge. "
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Want
" The double chin's not good for the red carpet. "
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Double
" Left Eye is a a rare gem. "
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" Now everybody's sampling. "
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Now
Sampling
Everybody
" A lot of people don't do this. You can count on a couple of hands probably how many artists also produce and write, both for themselves and for others, and are able to be successful at both things. "
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" My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. "
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Me
" When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are. "
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Size
" I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show. "
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Show
Prison
" I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle. "
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" My blood pressure was always up from just overworking. "
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" I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. "
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" Me personally, I don't ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble. "
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" When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before. "
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" If you believe a black cat is bad luck, people think you're crazy, but plenty of times, if I see a black cat down my street, I turn around and go the other way. Even if I'm late. I'll be late for the airport and be in a limo, and if I see a black cat, I'll be like, 'Sir, you have to turn around and go down the next street.' "
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" I don't just throw out microwave records. "
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Out
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" Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs? "
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" I felt like, 'How do I fit in'? I'm battling. But then I never fit in!'... I thank God for somebody like Pharrell who stayed in my ear. For him, at that time, 'Happy' was everywhere; he didn't have to share anything with me. "
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Time
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