- "We are doing this to preserve, take back, and present the heritage of black culinarians...so one day working in Harlem as a black cook means something on your resume..."
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- "The body became a middle finger spun, frozen, flared in the face of convention, of biology, of gravity, of nature itself..."
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- "Do you nurture your talent or put it in the back seat and just aim to have a decent life? I was like, fuck it. I am musical. I can act, dance. So shit, let's go for that..."
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- "I love being a housewife. I am dead serious..."
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- "Chenoa saw what the house is now. I couldn't see past what it was when I was looking at it -- and it was a mess..."
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- "Swap your shot glasses and margarita mixers for a refined taste of Mexico's signature spirit..."
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- "Comfort and convenience await the discerning traveler who can ignore the bawdy spring breakers..."
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- "I found stand-up much harder when I was really good. I had loads of material but I felt dirty and disgusted with myself..."
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- "We were the voice. We could ask for anything. I mean, my God, I worked for Anna Wintour..."
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- "Mid-90s, everything was real athletic looking and bulkier. Like the more you packed on, the better it was. But it wasn't. You look back at them and they're hideous..."
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- "Most exes should be composted, but just this once, I recycled. I get a late night text, 'Come visit me in Chicago next week...'"
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- "I had a garage sale of my mom's stuff to make rent and was dancing at bar mitzvahs with old ladies for 100 bucks...Horrifying."
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- "I had to be hard for so many years. When I showed little pieces of affection, I was taken advantage of..."
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- "The farm has composting loos. Backpacker/surfer/yogi types are confused, constipated, and concerned about one alarmingly tall, beetle-ridden poop pile..."
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- "My attitude about it from day one is that it's a biter's paradise and more power to you. This is the essence of the style wars as they evolved..."
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- "Before, Nigo was not authentic as far as [the Japanese] were concerned. But now that Ape is part of hip hop culture in the States, they have to eat their words..."
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- "I am a child, but I have to think and act like a woman. This business forces you to..."
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- "Experts say the boy wizard's terrifying trials — and how he copes with them — reflect very real stages of human development..."
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- "I came here because I love fashion, entertainment, nightlife and shopping. Once I am more stable financially, I hope to start saving..."
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- "We were young, dumb, green, smoking weed with pistols in the car. We never had to use them but, if we needed to, I would have..."
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- "Whether we are in the backseat for $40 or the front for $20, each and every one of us has had to bend our head down and bend over...just to keep our jobs..."
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- "I keep my valuables on the second floor, just in case this place ever sinks..."
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- "Though true fans know the difference between a niffler and a N.E.W.T., casual readers may need a cheat sheet to get up to speed..."
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- "I love when Sponge Bob's square pants fall off and you see the square underwear. And what is with the people calling him gay..."
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- "You're a negotiator, a psychiatrist, a tutor and you have to keep everybody healthy and get all the laundry done..."
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- "Forget pushing paper at a soul-crushing nine to five. Today's job market includes alternative ways to work it..."
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- "Our movie is not sponsored by Tampax, it's not about girls poring over some boy or wearing the same dress to school. This film deals with self understanding and self respect..."
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- "Water is better, food is better, sleep is better. Everything is better because you know you worked for it..."
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- "They thought it was insulting because Jet Li is the hero for the Chinese. Why does he have a collar on? Why is he stepped on by white people?...""
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- "People automatically think that I am going to come around with a large entourage, smoking weed, coming to the set late..."
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- "At a time when there is so much censorship in our country, every time Peter farts, it's political..."
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- "He always liked my hair long. When I cut him loose, I cut it too. It was new independence..."
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- "We tend to not even want to be classified as an urban label because people always associate urban with being black..."
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- "The daily ritual began with a backhand across his face followed by, 'You're worthless! You ain't shit! You ain't never going to be shit...'"
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- "My only problem comes when it's the naked girl and no other girl. I can be the girl with her clothes on, with the book and the glasses. Because people wear clothes..."
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- "My teachers and conductors were like, 'You're making a mockery of classical music!' I was like, 'Why not?' I finally felt alive..."
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- "Am I Korean? Am I American? Then I realized there was a third choice: I could be both..."
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- "Discarded Christmas trees are like women in their '50s...'Hey you! The one who's ovulating! Get over here and replace this dry one...'"
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- "Last year you were a drunken lord-a-leaping, mortifying coworkers at the company fete..."
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- "I made a choice early on to just tell the story regardless of how it made someone else look or feel..."
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- "We don't have to be offensive or offended when we make racial jokes..."
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- "At first I felt embarrassed for him, so I wouldn't say anything. It was kind of emasculating for him not to have money..."
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- "The whole process is very humiliating. I'm not a Versace or Armani model. I'm white-trash chic, doing department store ads..."
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- "I couldn't have been anybody's mother five years ago. Then, I was still looking to my mother to help me..."
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- "Texting has made the under appreciated, opposable, stumpy step sibling of the finger into a new digital (so to speak) star..."
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- "Celebrities don't need to do this for money. How much is vanity? Therapy? Proselytizing?"
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- "I have not had a social life in four years. I have not went out on a date. Not one. I am too focused right now..."
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- "The beast often symbolizes the id, something that is out of control. The modern urban human tries to escape and block out nature, but these animal instincts are still there, poking around..."
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- "I felt rejected, pushed to the back burner, insulted. I thought I could convince him to be with me, and I held on for a good six months. I couldn't..."
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- "Not just as black fathers, but as black men, we have a lot of work to do. Black women are catching hell...""
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- "I don't really know what dumb is because I am not dumb. I'm ditzy, like, I am the kind of girl that is just, like, out of it..."
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- "For four years I was nominated and lost every year. The best time is the time you don't expect it..."
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- "I had then what I refer to as a mental breakdown due to the antisocial nature of practicing 20 hours a day..."
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- "My fiance and I joke that we'll move to Utah where polygamy is legal so he can have all of the people that I am..."
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- "To make the first cut, you had to show grace and attitude. I was hopeful. I was a fool..."
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- "Sometimes I tell them I am a lesbian to make them back off. But then, of course, that turns them on too..."
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- "Things were on the down with me and with the label and I started looking in the classifieds for jobs..."
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- "I said to the director, 'I'm gaining weight man, and I can't stop.' When I saw the movie I was like, 'Shit.' I could not bear it. And I started smoking again..."
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- "I have no problem with nudity but I'm worried people will think I'm slutty. I'm really sexually reserved. It was just all of these people were cheering me on..."
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- "Street culture has been assimilated by corporations. It is being cheapened and commercialized. We wanted to make this book before the art form became a joke."
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- "I said, 'If someone doesn't make him likable...then he is just going to be some Indian who takes his trousers off and is the joke of the movie..."
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- "Before the bulky, be-wheeled moon boots called in-line skates took over city streets, a subtler mobile shoe reigned supreme..."
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- "I've spent so long grieving. What the hurt the most was the people who tried to take something like that and exploit it..."
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- "Aristotle was right when he said, 'You know, you don't know shit...'"
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- "I felt bad for her at first. But after a while I felt used..."
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- "The acting was easy but the kissing was hard. Every day I was like, Please don't tell me today is the kissing scene..."
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- "I told them, 'I see Josie and the Pussycats on drugs.' They were like, 'Um...Check, please!'..."