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I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Little Time
Tired
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Arrange
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Faith
Men
Disappointed
Elements
Element
Human Element
Put
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Dad Me Doing
Embraced
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Life Best Health
Grieve
Wallow
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I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Office
Paperwork
Time Long Long Time
Time Long Always
Secretarial
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Mr
Elvis
Himself
Madly
Rock
Performer
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Grace
Guarantees
Life God Health
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Glorious
Orchestra
Stage
Love Dad I Am
Big Band
Front
Recording
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
August
Los Angeles
Angeles
Bought
Los
Park
Section
Threats
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Mexico
Dressed
Spanish
Trip
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I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Sings
Stretch
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You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Lessons
Today I Am Me
Handled
Regrets
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Typical
My Friend
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I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Breathe
Fluid
Processing
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I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Exposed
Parent
Sex
Thinking
Talked
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Unforgettable
Intensified
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Mysterious
Sings
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Blow
Divorce
Unforgettable
Crushing
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Persona
Records
Translate
Time Believe People
Perform
Nicest
Hugs
Strangers
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
I Am Me People
Welcomed
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Death
Appetite
Chemotherapy
Energy
Form
Liver
Medication
Treatment
Cent
Compromised
Cured
Every Day
Per
Worked
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Avoided
Massachusetts
Music Dad Always
Adored
Professionally
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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Graphic
People Sometimes Your
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Determined
Identity
Rhythm
Aretha
Blues
Compares
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A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Donate
List
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Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Bored
Handful
Las Vegas
Vegas
Respond
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I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Active
Born Again
Christian Faith
Baptist
Episcopalian
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Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Mistreated
Sensitive
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I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Day To Day
Extremist
Mechanism
Recovery
Addictive
Cured
Personalities
Tripped
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I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Achieved
Measure
Pioneer
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There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Missing
Standards
Inevitably
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Spiritual
Spiritual Power
God Faith Power
Believing
Happening
Miracles
Surrounded
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure
September
Doctor
Hospital
Rushed
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Groups
Rock Music
Solo
Unusual
Musicians
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One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Dedicated
Work Music Passion
Craft
Stays
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Boxing
Jackie
Living Room
Musician
Orchestra
Tinkering
Buddies
George
Gleason
Oscar
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When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Appropriate
Arrangements
Be Kind
Unforgettable
Fine Line
Liberties
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Marriage
Handle
Insecure
Scared
Stardom
Unhappy
Drain
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Affection
Convoluted
Distorted
Wonderful People
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Distance
Dramatic
Majestic
Sat
Corner
Front Door
Old Enough
Rarely
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Love
Country
Foreign Countries
Granted
Thinking
Love Feel Doing
Countries
Hi
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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Good People See
Talented
Insecurities
Motivates
Talented People
Yours
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Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Track
Attempted
Lift
Match
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I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Life Men Me
Big Problem
Crutch
Define
First Thing
The First Thing
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
Natalie Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Craziness
Different Kinds
Handle
Marathon
Time Music Together
Phase
Properly
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