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" When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. "
Whoopi Goldberg
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" I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me. "
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" I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think. "
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" I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black? "
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