They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

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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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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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Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

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You can't be hesitant about who you are.

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

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