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" People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look! "
Natalie Cole
I Can
Look
Say
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" I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. "
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" There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing. "
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Who
Singing
" As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross. "
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Think
Better
" 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. "
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Faith
More
" I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted. "
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American
Love
Think
" It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce. "
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Shadow
Hard
Beyonce
" Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing. "
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Daughter
Lot
Me
" I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha. "
Natalie Cole
Voice
Blues
Create
" I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done. "
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Doing
Done
Really
" I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it. "
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Because
Change
Had
" One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music. "
Natalie Cole
Time
Together
You
" My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life. "
Natalie Cole
Much
Led
He
" When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much. "
Natalie Cole
Great
Woman
Singing
" I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band. "
Natalie Cole
I Am
Stage
Band
" I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings. "
Natalie Cole
Serious
Character
Singing
" I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney. "
Natalie Cole
Just
Thankful
Doctors
" I was going to college to be a doctor. "
Natalie Cole
Going
Doctor
College
" 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
" My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure. "
Natalie Cole
Failure
New
Person
" You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today. "
Natalie Cole
Me
I Am
You
" I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. "
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Back
Life
Hell
" Aretha Franklin does not like me. "
Natalie Cole
Aretha Franklin
Does
Like
" I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body. "
Natalie Cole
Build
Starting
Up
" I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something. "
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Still
Grieving
Father
" I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff. "
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Like
Talk
Willing
" 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.' "
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Rock
My Life
Look
" 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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Group
Great
Destiny
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
Enough
Father
God