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My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

My Style Not Specific
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I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Wanted Remind Myself Others
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For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.

For Me It's Important
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I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

Think The Jobs Artist
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It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

It's Better Do Your
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When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.

Active Anything Because Doing
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It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Always Growing GrowingUp Struggle
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I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

Bad Games Going Heartbeat
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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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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

About Anything Blog Encouraging
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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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I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Agnostic Appealed Back Breathed
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

Anyone Beat Before Cool
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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 don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

Friends Hard Life Make
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Essence Followed Independently Instinct
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Neck Around Time Ankle
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Story Far Begin Surface
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Beautiful Beauty Come Considered
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Away Counts Left Take
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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Detour Good Hell Pretty
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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Allowed Being Bipolar Constantly
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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

About Another Being Christian
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Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

Acting Egos Good Hazard
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The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'

Around Believe Blessed Cannot
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It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.
Able Character Dream Just
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I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

Life Think Secret Children
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You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

Able Achieve Actress Almost
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Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Because Character Characters Consciousness
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Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

Life Want Singer Part
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There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Thing Aging Maturing Knowledge
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Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Love People Stand Solitude
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It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Kind Outside Guess Guy
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I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

Course Handsome Sexy Hopeless
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It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

Dangerous Fun Hopelessly Love
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I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

Able Choice Film Gone
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Different Intention Kind Letters
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When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.

Beautiful Begin Course Everyone
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

Allowed Anywhere Arabia Because
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People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

Alone Change Grow Hermits
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Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Brain Hand Meditation Search
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It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

Every Work Love Family
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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Read Interesting Tell Truth
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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

Being Like Loss Much
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Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
Painting Mean Describing State
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What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

What Poetry Real Dreaming
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You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

You Pretending Like Life
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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Age Deaths Diseases Laugh
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We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

Accomplishment Beauty Everyone Good
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Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well.

Around Been Different Everything
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