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A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination...or a headache.

Great Wind Blowing Imagination
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Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

Happiness Unhappiness Heart Spirit
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Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
Nothing Difficult Opinion Avoid
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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 became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

About Affecting Age Appreciate
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Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

Everything Decide Do Means
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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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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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My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.

Dream Grounded Feet Life
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Assertion Beauty Flowers Proud
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Best Day Every EveryDay
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Make Most You Yourself
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Afford Blessings Friends Old
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Earth Supported Power Truth
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

One Excellent Thing Learned
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Upright Dealing Forest Straight
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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'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 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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How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

Wonder Aging Terror Confront
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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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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

Decided Early Editors Everybody
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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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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Beautiful Calculation Everything Noble
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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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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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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

Against Also Away Best
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I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

Audience Beautiful Cheering Everybody
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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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Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Actor Any Beautiful Care
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

Adamant Father Follow Footsteps
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When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Deathbed Defines Go Life
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I gave life, and that is beautiful.

Beautiful Gave Life
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

Dumb Girl Intelligence Intelligent
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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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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Been Book Could Fashion
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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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I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

Family Feeling Give Great
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I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

Bothers Find Happy People
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I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

Only Record Relate Some
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I'm passionate about my fans and my shows. But my biggest reward in the success that is my life are my husband and kids.

Life Kids Reward Shows
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Behind Body Common Experience
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Adversity Met Hath Own
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I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Healthy Happy Mad Philosophy
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Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

Imagine Walking Trip Care
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