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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
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"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
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"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
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"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."
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"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."
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"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."
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"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"I was a handful growing up."
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"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
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"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
Education
"My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away."
Diet
"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
Giving
"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
Winning
"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."
Mother
"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
Growing up
"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."
School
"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."
Mother
"It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others."
Help
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
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