Gabrielle Union Quotes
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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You have to develop a very thick skin.
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I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
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Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
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I love horses.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
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When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.