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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

Even if you don’t have anything, even if you’ve got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.
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Help Myself Poor Share
To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.
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Act Difficult Myself Training Transition
New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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Greatness Live Place World
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
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Example People Positive Surround Yourself
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Citizenship Female Myself People Teaching
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.
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Myself Pay Pride
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn’t work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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Mother Myself Promise Time
You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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Love Smart Time Yourself
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.
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Artist Business Creation Destiny Guide Movie Myself Status
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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Age Appearance Body Myself Teen
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.
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Capability Life Myself Realization Thinking
I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
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Accomplishment Commitment Myself Thinking
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.
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Myself Run Time Version Worry
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I’d say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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Children Follow Myself Perfection Shoes
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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Believe Stand Time Yourself
There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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Confidence Inspirational People Person

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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