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We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.

Development Different Different Stages Narratives
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I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.

After Battles Better Career
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I definitely have a happy marriage and family life.
Definitely Family Family Life Happy
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I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.

Accepted Actor Almost Always
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You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

About Actress Black Coming
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I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

Acting Always Care Don't Care
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I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.

Challenged Convenient Even Know
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Even Feel Get He
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Contact Enjoy Football Get
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Cringe Critics Master Novel
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

All The World Calls Change Estate
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You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Able Accept Better Failure
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

Degree Expectations Life Like
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I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

Afford Because Fight Game
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I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

Distracted Easily Get Joke
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I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

Friends Get Hear Honestly
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But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

About Any Being Ever
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And winning is a huge thing for me

Huge HugeThing Me Thing
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I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Aggressiveness Court Get Hoop
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When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

Always Apartment Because Comfortable
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Express Gratitude Forget Appreciation
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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Risk Costs Comfortable Inaction
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When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Words Crisis Characters Represents
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Greater Knowledge Increases Ignorance
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Goal Education Advancement Knowledge
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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Courage Life Dramatic Spectacle
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Modern Skeptics Entrust Minds
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
War Exist Conscientious Objector
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Prefer World Law World
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The one thing that I learner in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.

The One Thing That
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

I Was Raised Father
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Power Best Generation Mankind
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I don't have one geographic location that I'm exclusively loyal to.

I Don't Have One
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Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

About Field Get Help
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Courage Embody Feel Fight
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
Expectations Industry Manage Me
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Against Artists Dangerous Great
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Act Amusement Generally Marriage
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Any Attempt Brutal Comprehensible
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Aching Deny Doomed Free
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

About Average Average Person Come
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
About Anonymous Get Gifts
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

Agenda Anyone Campaign Clear
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Best Block Deadline Getting
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

Announce Around Five Get
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Evil thrives when Good people do nothing. When one of us fight for us. We all should fight for him. Together we rise

Evil Good people Nothing Fight
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Everything is possible in Nigeria, only those benefiting from the countries chaos and backwardness will say different.

Nigeria Possible Chaos Backwardness
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