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I would love to do really great work and for women who are marginalised to see me as an inspiration.

Great Great Work Inspiration Love
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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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If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

About Because Comedian Death
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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 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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The writer works in a lonely way.

Lonely Way Works Writer
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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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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Being He Honor Human
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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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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Contact Enjoy Football Get
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Books Enough Kept Long
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Again Complain Heard Him
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Difficult Learning Life Most
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Church Entertainment Expression Growing
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

Abroad Barack Barack Obama Common
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

Art Artistic Balance Both
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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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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

About Artists Beginning Better
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Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Being Definitely Fast Grow
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I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

Distracted Easily Get Joke
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No place is better than Akron.
Better Place Than
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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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Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

After Better Could Focus
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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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I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Basketball Championships Every Fulfilled
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Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

Always Back Feeling Follow
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I'm just a little kid from Akron.

Just Kid Little LittleKid
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Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Always Home Life MyLife
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I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Criticism Like Makes Strong
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I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Lot Motivation
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I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

Guard Point PointGuard Stop
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I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Always Better Correct Day
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I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Championships Going Out Playing
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I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

Am Anybody Basketball Because
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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Enemy Truth Lie Dishonest
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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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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Enjoy Opinion Discomfort Thought
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others

Tolerance Lack Commitment Belief
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I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

Think Each Artist Lives
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Paceful Revolution Impossible Violent
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When hip-hop came along, men and women started dressing down as a form of rebellion.

When Hip-hop Came Along
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Progress Nation Swifter Education
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All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

African Dispora Feel There
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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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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

History Relentless Present Past
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Mothers Sons Grow President
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Sorry Point Life Extinct
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