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I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.

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Halle Berry
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 14
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I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.
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I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?
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It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.
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I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.
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I also have been called that terrible N word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.
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During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.
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When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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