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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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I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.
Caners Likes Me I
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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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When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

Surrounded Children Child You
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Once Start Working Afraid
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Work Always Ask Questions
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Self-interest Friendship Bitter Truth
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Wise Man Restrain Sense
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Overly Attached Family Members
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It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Complete Crimes Fortune Gods
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Me that came to this world to have fun.

Fun World Me
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I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Believe Connection First Love
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I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Existence Noble Sorry Sublime
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I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

Roles Genres Able Films
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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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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Shame Divide Celebrate Film
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I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Dumb Happen People Got
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I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Life Between Kind Living
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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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Alakija dey find money. Dangote dey find money. Otedola dey find money. Why me no go find money.

Money Alakija Dangote Otedola
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Call me when you're feeling sick. Call me when you're feeling down. Call me when you need someone to talk to. Call me when you're feeling lonely. Call me when you need somebody. Call me when you need someone to talk to.

Call me Lonely Feeling Need someone
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Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Beauty Been Culture Every
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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Aware Because Become Experience
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And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Freud Insights Magnificent Man
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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
Antagonism Culture Feel Fuse
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It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

Any Beings Feel Half
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I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Alive Altogether Argue Certain
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

Around Convention Defy Gravitate
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Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.
Beard Ever Me Met
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My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

Because Connection Father Gave
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.

Away Certain Disaster Knew
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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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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

Career Compromise First Get
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We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!

Because Been David Did
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I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.

Before Buy Came Cosmetics
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

Been Being Cultures Designers
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I don't listen to my own music at home.

Home Listen Music Own
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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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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

Exactly Old Family Kitchen
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You're going to get your three or four scenes; you're not going to be able to show what you can do.

Able Absolutely Been Doctors
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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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At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

World Show Attached Business
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I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

Job Better Housewife Become
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Centuries Figure Glasses Looking
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I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

Actually Business Dreams Feel
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.

Anything Crew Day Every
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In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

Jeopardy Career Work Music
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Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey.

Commitment Even Good Heels
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