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" I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. "
Missy Elliott
She
Survivor
Mother
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" I still don't want no broke dude! I'm open to offers, but he's got to be stable. I see a lot of friends who feel they have to be with a man, but they always pick the wrong one. Are there any right ones? "
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Feel
Man
Friends
" I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. "
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Got
Mother
She
" When something is so hot, I don't want to just jump on it right away. I want to take it home and make sure I give it my best shot. "
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Right
Jump
Hot
" I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss. "
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Angry
Find
Loss
" I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me. "
Missy Elliott
Inspire
Love
Believe
" I feel like, O.K., if I can make it as a singer, then let me try rapping. If I can make it as a rapper, then let me try writing. All right? If I make it as a rap singer and writer, then why not try to produce? I don't feel limited in any way. "
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Try
Feel
I Can
" When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before. "
Missy Elliott
Say
Comparison
Me
" I think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara. "
Missy Elliott
Think
Like
I Think
" 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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Sometimes
Day
Hard
" 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
" When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it. "
Missy Elliott
Live
Someone
You
" All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background. "
Missy Elliott
Trials
See
Personal
" I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me. "
Missy Elliott
More
Judging
Me
" I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce. "
Missy Elliott
Want
Artist
Control
" Music is a male-dominated field. "
Missy Elliott
Music
Field
" Everybody is doing the same old thing. "
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Old Thing
Everybody
Doing
" I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids. "
Missy Elliott
Kids
Most
Want
" I want to be cutting-edge. "
Missy Elliott
Cutting-Edge
Want
" Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down. "
Missy Elliott
People
Doing
Down
" I never record in front of anybody. "
Missy Elliott
Anybody
Front
Never
" Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down. "
Missy Elliott
Seriously
Sometimes
Women
" The fun part of being an entertainer is that you call up Six Flags, and you say, 'I'm coming,' and you get to get on all the rides before everyone. I hate standing in line. "
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Fun
You
Say
" 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
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
God
Time
Thank God
" 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
" What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels. "
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Fit
Feels
He
" 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
" Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack. "
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Funny
Look
Ladder
" I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. "
Missy Elliott
Down
Time
Mine
" I've only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I've been in the industry over twenty-something years! "
Missy Elliott
Only
Two
Over