Mary J. Blige Quotes
I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.
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I never gave up, and for that, I can be proud of myself.
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Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
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If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.
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I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
