Missy Elliott Quotes
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.
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I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.
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This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.
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I enjoy three meals a day, and 90 per cent of what I eat is vegetarian and homemade. I occasionally eat non-vegetarian, and chicken preparations are my favourite.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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I want to be cutting-edge.
