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" I do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm not as good as the little kids that come in the arcade. Their little feet go crazy fast. I'm not that fast, but I'm good on it! "
Missy Elliott
Revolution
Go
Good
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" What my home life is like now is great. "
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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 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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" 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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" When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did. "
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" When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living. "
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" Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me. "
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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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" I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through. "
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" It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it. "
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" I want to be cutting-edge. "
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" I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day. "
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Day
Mean
" People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.' "
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Irrelevant
Like
People
" I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. "
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" When I create something, it's got to be special, and it can't just be to throw something out there because I feel like I'm Missy. "
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" I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool. "
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" Don Cornelius was a genius. He created a show where he was breaking artists' songs. If you were on his show, he made the consumer want to go out and purchase your music. He will be greatly missed. If they ever try to recreate what he did, it has to been done right, authentic and real with soul! That's what Don displayed. "
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Try
Soul
Music
" We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool. "
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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
" A lot of people don't know a lot of records that I've written or produced, so that's a highlight for me as a woman. "
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" I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken. "
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" I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing. "
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" I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated. "
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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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" What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels. "
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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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You
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" No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing. "
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Hot
" I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss. "
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