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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.

Mary J. Blige

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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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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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I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
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It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
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I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.
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It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.
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I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
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I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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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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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
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Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!
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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 like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror.
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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
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You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.
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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
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This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.
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When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.
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