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People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Because Expect Just Just Because
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Accepts Bump Everyone Fighter
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Any Artist Express Feel
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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Disorder Stress Fanatic Prominent
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

Age Base Elegant Find
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

Famous Role Know Taught
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I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Being Both Doing Glad
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I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

Africa Am Better Better Life
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As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Bathroom Crying Future Go
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I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.

Bad Bad Guy Being Good
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Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

Children Dishonest Even His
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

Actually Different Different Things Done
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

Artist Give Inspire Now
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Popular Propaganda Pressure Helpless
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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

Actor Allow Comic Dramas
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Attained Bourgeois Democracy Dream
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Love Developing Children Characters
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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Church Doors Faith Had
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

Actor Hire Make Real
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I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

About Act Actor Because
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

Actual Attributes Demand Dracula
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Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Done Partial Roles Stage
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Attained Before Hard HardWork
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Almost Any Convince Down
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I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

Interesting Just Like Person
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

Believe Least Body Role
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Criticized Dude Films Get
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

Actor Am Different Different Roles
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Not every artist is a role model.
Artist Every Model Role
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Business leaders must focus on developing talents and coaching for future leadership roles.

Leaders Developing Talents Coaching
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Again Always Change Feel
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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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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'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 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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I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.

Life Career Point Role
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Belong Category Causes Classes
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Development, investment, and Nation Growth come when every individual plays an integral role in Nation building

Development Investment Nation growth Plays
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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

Slave Frees Private Abolishes
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

Christ Choose Rich Preach
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“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?”

Television Betrayed Democratic Speech
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I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

Girl Land Where Rifles
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The unity we enjoy today in our great state, could not have been achieved without our Royal Fathers playing key roles in ensuring that peace is maintained in their various realms.

Unity Enjoy Today Great State
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Both First Ladies Problems
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

Actually Area Day Hope
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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Man Perhaps Role Uncertain
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I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Artistic Big Big Impact Control
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I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Am Angel Artist Devil
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God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Christian Circumstances Christian Inspirational Roles
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Winning titles plays a big role in the Ballon d'Or race.

Big Plays Race Role
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