Tika Sumpter quote: "I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked 'One Life to Live.'"

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CECE PENISTON

My childhood was not abusive, because I never had one.
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DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON

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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
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big, medium and small.
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GEORGE LOPEZ

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SKEET ULRICH

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked 'One Life to Live.'

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I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked 'One Life to Live.'

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