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" I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection. "
Mary J. Blige
Perfection
Never
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" So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there. "
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" Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. "
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" If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now. "
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" Larry David makes me laugh. "
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" I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up. "
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" If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?' "
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" I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest. "
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" Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do. "
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" I've never been a mean person. "
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" I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me. "
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" I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. "
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" I just love food, period. "
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" Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live. "
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" I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them. "
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" I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do. "
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" I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot. "
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" I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself. "
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" I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it. "
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" Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations. "
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Women
" There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short. "
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" I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.' "
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" When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period. "
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" No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing. "
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" Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. "
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" The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things. "
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" You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it. "
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" I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part. "
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" You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it. "
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" I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet. "
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" When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself. "
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