I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It’s tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?
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I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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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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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
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You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.
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Always follow your own path.
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I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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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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