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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
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I'm searching for a real love.
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My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.
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When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.
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I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
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