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So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.

Queen Latifah

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Break Home Music Myself Writing
If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I’d just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Run Time Version Worry
When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Choice Hate Love Mirror Yourself
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Decision Experience Human Learning Myself Perfection Regret
I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Enjoyment Learning Life Myself
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Believe Stand Time Yourself
I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Capability Life Myself Realization Thinking
Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Help Ourselves People Success Talent
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Allow Big Life Ourselves Thinking Wide
If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Family Job Myself
I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I’m living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Accomplishment Confidence Empowerment Feeling Goal Live Myself Woman
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Pay Pride
I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Feeling Myself Queen Treatment Woman
If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Failure God Myself Reason Unique
Let your inner queen’s voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you’ll do her proud.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Clear Loud Proud Queen Voice Yourself
I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Allow Head Life Myself Simplicity

So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.

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So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.

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