I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.

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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

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As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

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I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

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Relationships change us and make us grow.

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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

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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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And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

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There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

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