Mary J. Blige Quotes
It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he's great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.
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'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
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Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
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I'm surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!
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It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
