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" I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids. "
Missy Elliott
Kids
Most
Want
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" The double chin's not good for the red carpet. "
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" Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. "
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Creative
Hip-Hop
Music
" He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell? "
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He
Who
Want
" 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 remember, in school, writing Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and asking them to come get me out of class. I would imagine them running down the hall and asking my teacher, 'Ms. Daniels, can we get Missy out of class? We're here to see Missy.' "
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Writing
Teacher
School
" 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
" When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are. "
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Want
Looking
Size
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Time
Road
Love
" I always said if a man would have done half the records that I've done, we would know about it. But we don't know all the records I've done for other artists. "
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Know
Said
Half
" I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. "
Missy Elliott
Got
Mother
She
" I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues. "
Missy Elliott
Kids
Still
Now
" Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me. "
Missy Elliott
I Am
Me
Run
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Feel
Create
Special
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Doll
Singer
Up
" I don't want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but 'The Rain' is hot. "
Missy Elliott
Rain
Hot
Want
" Lil' Kim is my sister, known her for years, and I'll never turn my back on her, but there is enough room for everybody. I want to see everybody get it. "
Missy Elliott
Back
Enough
Never
" I guess my friends probably think I'm one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff. "
Missy Elliott
Stuff
Friends
Doing
" No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums. "
Missy Elliott
Doing
Myself
People
" 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
" You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable. "
Missy Elliott
Live
Money
You
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Funny
Look
Ladder
" I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane. "
Missy Elliott
She
Own
Lane
" My blood pressure was always up from just overworking. "
Missy Elliott
Blood
Up
Pressure
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Copy
Feel
Hot
" I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing. "
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Got
Percent
Like
" You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time. "
Missy Elliott
Ready
Time
You
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Think
You
Chicken
" I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen. "
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Write
System
Pen
" I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all. "
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Just
Crazy
Like
" 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