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" I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. "

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" I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do. "

" What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one. "

" My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through. "

" In order to have the success with 'Empire,' you have to have Fox; you have to have huge P&A. You have to have huge budgets for the show. I'm pretty confident that the budget of 'Empire' is six times what I'm spending on 'Have And Have Nots.' "

" Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren't a lot of those. "

" I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people. "

" The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me. "

" I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood. "

" My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down. "

" I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey. "

" I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you. "

" Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman. "

" After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country. "

" Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. "

" There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible. "

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" When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no. "

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" I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about. "

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" It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth. "

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