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" My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain. "
Missy Elliott
People
Imagine
Imagination
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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
" 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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" I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss. "
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Find
Loss
" I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. "
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Down
Time
Mine
" I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool. "
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Genius
Cool
Want
" I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you. "
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You
Truth
Think
" I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it. "
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Use
Drink
Always
" No, I'm a flirtatious person; I'll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I'm so into the music, and I'm in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That's not an exaggeration. "
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Sometimes
Day
Hard
" And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that. "
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She
Work
Doing
" 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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Generation
Unity
Hip-Hop
" 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
" 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
" My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating. "
Missy Elliott
Father
You
Sometimes
" 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
" Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. "
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Creative
Hip-Hop
Music
" The person I eventually find will have to like me and my style. "
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Like
Will
Style
" Now everybody's sampling. "
Missy Elliott
Now
Sampling
Everybody
" 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 talked about my father being abusive to my mother - people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy. "
Missy Elliott
Me
Father
Talk
" I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me. "
Missy Elliott
Foot
Me
Mentor
" When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before. "
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Say
Comparison
Me
" I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping. "
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Kid
Always
Would
" No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums. "
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Doing
Myself
People
" I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on. "
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Want
Up
Something
" A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it. "
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Street
Walk
Song
" I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane. "
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She
Own
Lane
" 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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Where
People
" I don't want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but 'The Rain' is hot. "
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Rain
Hot
Want
" I want to be cutting-edge. "
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Cutting-Edge
Want