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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
About Character Me Playing
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I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Come Had Majority Negative
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I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
Blessed Both Gift Having
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I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

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From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Always Aware Dre Got
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In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Class Days Grade Literally
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I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Life Look Mentors Most
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It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

Come Felt Out True
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Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

Finally Longer Making Music
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The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Adult Contemporary Contemporary Music Jazz
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I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.

Center Commercial Ecosystem Internet
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content.

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But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

Accomplish Accomplishment Anything Biggest
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You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Away Because I Love Just
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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

College Coltrane Influence Jazz
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I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

Band Every Friday Instrumental
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Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.

Always DollyParton Girl Her
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I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.

Always Appreciative Been High
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

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It was humbling to see my brothers blowing up in music while I wasn't in the public eye, but it was also gratifying, because I'm doing what I love, and the self-esteem you get from that is so much better.

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My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Actor Believed Capable Control
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I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!

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I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
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People responded to my work because I was doing something that hadn’t been done before.

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Time is too precious to waste, but time is not the determining factor in your destiny. That is a partnership between you and your creator.
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It was funny because right before the whole band broke up, like, we were seven months' pregnant, so my life was going to transition anyway, whether the band was continuing or not.

Anyway Band Because Before
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I think my craziest Hollywood moment was performing at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder.

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We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative... Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.

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I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.

Deal Friends Got Had
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I've always, like, wanted two kids that were both girls, and my wife was like, 'Why?' I'm like, 'Because I've been around boy so much my entire life that I want to be surrounded by, you know, girls.'

Always Around Because Been
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There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.

Age Becoming Being Broadway
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I am blessed that I get to do this thing I love to do, and if I wasn't doing this, I'd probably be working as Starbucks. So the fact that I get to travel around on a tour bus all around the country is pretty awesome.

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The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Between Come Did Either
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We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

Album Between Collaborative Columbia
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I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or wat

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I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

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My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

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And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

After Band Crew Diego
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And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

Airport Asleep Brother Diego
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Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward

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You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.
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And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

Always Attention Good Got
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I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

Country CountryMusic Ever First
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I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

Anthem Breaks City Door
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People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

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I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Against Air Air Force Always
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