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" I guess my friends probably think I'm one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff. "
Missy Elliott
Stuff
Friends
Doing
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" I try not to be cruel to people. I know there's a karma, and I'm constantly thinking of my blessings. I live and die by being a Baptist. If I can't go to church on a Sunday, I'll get a tape by the Clark Sisters and slide it in for the day. "
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People
Live
Day
" I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage. "
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Imagination
Cute
Girl
" Breaking news: there is only one Missy. "
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Only
Breaking
News
" Left Eye is a a rare gem. "
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Left
Eye
Rare
" I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids. "
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Kids
Most
Want
" 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 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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Know
Important
Family
" 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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Copy
Feel
Hot
" If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life. "
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Way
Calls
Something
" Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing. "
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Before
Comparison
Doing
" I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show. "
Missy Elliott
Watch
Show
Prison
" I don't want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but 'The Rain' is hot. "
Missy Elliott
Rain
Hot
Want
" 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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Hands
Others
People
" I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on. "
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Want
Up
Something
" 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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Fly
Work
Money
" You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable. "
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Live
Money
You
" I can't complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn't complain because there's so many people who would kill to get to this point. "
Missy Elliott
Point
People
Who
" I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss. "
Missy Elliott
Angry
Find
Loss
" Now everybody's sampling. "
Missy Elliott
Now
Sampling
Everybody
" I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. "
Missy Elliott
Down
Time
Mine
" I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got. "
Missy Elliott
Generation
Unity
Hip-Hop
" If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there. "
Missy Elliott
Wanted
Just
Missing
" I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it. "
Missy Elliott
Use
Drink
Always
" 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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Like
You
Life
" The person I eventually find will have to like me and my style. "
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Like
Will
Style
" I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer. "
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Artist
Where
People
" A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it. "
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Street
Walk
Song
" 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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Pain
Blessed
Money
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Humble
I Am
Mother
" I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool. "
Missy Elliott
Genius
Cool
Want