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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever.

Nas
Ever Feel Just Me
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

About Bachelors Know Married
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Intellectual Sevility Power Betray
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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Actor Because Comedy Doing
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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Anyone Considered Could Enough
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

College Either Government History
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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Any Had Here Humor
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Mother Idea Feeling
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Any Course Had Jobs
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Early in my modeling career, when I was a teenager, I really took care of my skin. I didn't get too much sun exposure, and I moisturized.
Care Career Early Exposure
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Because Else Father Japanese
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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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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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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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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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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 didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Any Class College Fiction
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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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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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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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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Bringing Care Great Just
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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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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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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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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

Cousin Date Father Girl
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I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

Hated School Friend Fit
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I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

Wish People Young Respect
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Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.

After Afterwards All Day Celebrate
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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

You Married Marry What
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I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Buy Cake Candle Got
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If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Draw Kid Kitchen Magnet
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