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Missy Elliot

"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."

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"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."

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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."

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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."

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"When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too."

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