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I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.

Care Everything Got Really
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When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'

Could Dangerous End Even
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Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

Burden False Make Horrible
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Kills You To Watch
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Home Growing Up Weren't
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My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

Absolutely Because Classes Cold
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You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Limitations Mine Know Way
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

Aesthetically Appeal Appealing Banished
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

About Al Al Capone Anything
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I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

AllMyLife Been Dancing Did
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

Central Did Enough Grew
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

About Anyone Because Big
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Did Dirt Hit Mean
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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

About Cure Damn Friends
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Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

Whether You Are Democrat
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Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

Voter's Say Repeal Health
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Because Came Come Deeply
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When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.

When Fan Paul's Boutique
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

Got Interesting Oh Realized
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I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

I'm Stupid Ugly Dumb
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Any Class College Fiction
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

Did Get Good Slow
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I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Didn't Have Nothing Going
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.

Our First Didn't Work
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
Cell CellPhone Game Late
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Always Away Burn Consolation
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

Anywhere AnywhereElse California Choice
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This morning you woke up. Did you give thanks? Be thankful.
Morning Woke Give thanks Thankful
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Write Reason Breathe Die
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.

All Night Career Drink Eat
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. Didn’t work out? Try again, again, and again.

Champion Contender Give up Try again
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

About Deep Father Fear
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Obviously, I'm honoured to be mentioned as a candidate to win the Ballon d'Or, but the only way I can influence it is to just focus on playing well.

Candidate Focus Honoured I Can
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Acceptable Deal Did Ernest Hemingway
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Bringing Care Great Just
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If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.

Because Become Challenge Did
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I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.
Care Education Kid Off
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

About Did Extraordinary Extraordinary Things
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When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Did First Had IThink
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I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.

Actress Always Aspire Aspired
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I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

Was Raised Nigeria My
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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me.

When Originally Came To
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Albums Ali Back Beats
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Fearful Strain Night Day
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.

Nobody Listened Until Know
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People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Asking Big George Going
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

About Affecting Age Appreciate
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.

Did Get Involved Rock
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