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"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."
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"Necessity, the mother of invention."
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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."
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"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me."
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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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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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"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."
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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."
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"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."
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"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
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"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person."
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"A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight."
Thought
"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
Mother
"It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them."
Artist
"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."
Woman
"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
Music
"I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him."
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"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."
People
"At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy."
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