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" Music is a male-dominated field. "
Missy Elliott
Music
Field
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" He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell? "
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He
Who
Want
" I hear a lot of influence from me and Timbaland's whole sound in a lot of records of today. But if you have classics like that, then I'm sure you gotta expect that it's gonna influence some people. So, I'm fine with that. "
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Today
You
Influence
" 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
" Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs? "
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Like
You
Life
" I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues. "
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Kids
Still
Now
" 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. "
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Hip-Hop
" If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there. "
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Wanted
Just
Missing
" I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated. "
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Hip-Hop
He
Did
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Know
Important
Family
" There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on. "
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You
Down
Fall
" I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in. "
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Like
Whole
Time
" 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
" 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 love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. "
Missy Elliott
She
Survivor
Mother
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Know
Relationship
People
" I always feel the need to work as if I don't have a deal, because that's what's going to keep me around for a long time. "
Missy Elliott
Long
Feel
Long Time
" It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists. "
Missy Elliott
Work
Artist
Say
" I do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm not as good as the little kids that come in the arcade. Their little feet go crazy fast. I'm not that fast, but I'm good on it! "
Missy Elliott
Revolution
Go
Good
" 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
" A lot of people don't know a lot of records that I've written or produced, so that's a highlight for me as a woman. "
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Know
Woman
Lot
" Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record. "
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Remember
You
Successful
" I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer. "
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Artist
Where
People
" 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
" I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it. "
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Feel
Walk
Down
" I never record in front of anybody. "
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Anybody
Front
Never
" 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. "
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Inspire
Love
Believe
" 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. "
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Humble
I Am
Mother
" Music should be your escape. "
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Your
Should
Music
" You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time. "
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Ready
Time
You