Queen Latifah Quotes
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
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The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.
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How are people who are young and look like Oscar Grant portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody given a badge and a gun and told to go police in those communities, all of a sudden they got to protect and serve and talk to people they never even spent time with and they might have formed opinions about.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
