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It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
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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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Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
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Larry David makes me laugh.
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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 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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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
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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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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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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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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.
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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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I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.
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I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.
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I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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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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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 decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.
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I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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