At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

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Relationships change us and make us grow.

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But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

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