Lauryn Hill Quotes
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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I talk about being Australian a lot.
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You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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I like a brother that cuts to the chase.
