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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

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I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

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I still like my antique clothes.

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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

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Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

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