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" If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive. "
Natalie Cole
Alive
Absolutely
You
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" A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time. "
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" The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow. "
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" God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with. "
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" When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?' "
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" My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life. "
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" I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt. "
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" I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing. "
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" I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off. "
Natalie Cole
Clothes
Sexy
Beautiful
" I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist. "
Natalie Cole
Always
Faith
More
" I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966. "
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Been
Office
Time
" I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans. "
Natalie Cole
Start
Fans
Never
" I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King. "
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Play
King
Happy
" It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce. "
Natalie Cole
Shadow
Hard
Beyonce
" I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.' "
Natalie Cole
Rock
My Life
Look
" I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any. "
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Left
Me
Father
" I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something. "
Natalie Cole
Still
Grieving
Father
" We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways. "
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You
Parents
People
" I was going to college to be a doctor. "
Natalie Cole
Going
Doctor
College
" I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees. "
Natalie Cole
Health
Grace
God
" When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic. "
Natalie Cole
School
Home
Door
" It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain. "
Natalie Cole
Story
Problems
People
" The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948. "
Natalie Cole
Park
Los Angeles
Father
" When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example. "
Natalie Cole
You
Honest
Reach
" I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done. "
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Doing
Done
Really
" Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue. "
Natalie Cole
See
You
Race
" I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. "
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Survive
Go
Things
" I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about. "
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Like
Sex
Parents
" It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener. "
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Present
You
Beautiful
" There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing. "
Natalie Cole
Artists
Who
Singing
" I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico. "
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Young
First
Well