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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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Mary Jane Blige
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When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
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It's OK showing yourself some love.
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I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
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I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.
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I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
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No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.
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Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
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Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.
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Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
Mary J. Blige
You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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Larry David makes me laugh.
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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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I do consider myself part of black history.
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So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.
Mary J. Blige
It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.
Mary J. Blige
