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" The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow. "

Natalie Cole

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" I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done. "

" I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra. "

" I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about. "

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" It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina. "

" We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways. "

" I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees. "

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" I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up. "

" What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me. "

" When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?' "

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" 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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" I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any. "

Natalie Cole

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" People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way. "

" If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive. "

" I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.' "

" By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop. "

" 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. "