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Janelle Monae Succeeded By Doing The Opposite Of Most Artists · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It's common advice for
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  Speaker 1: emerging artists who always say yes the opportunities in the
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  Speaker 1: infancy of their career because you never know what doors
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  Speaker 1: might open. But Janelle Money says the key to controlling
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  Speaker 1: how her career an image developed was to be brave
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  Speaker 1: and confident enough to pass when it didn't feel right.
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  Speaker 1: She tells the Cut at the beginning of my career,
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  Speaker 1: I always said no. That was my secret weapon. Once
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  Speaker 1: I started to eliminate the things that didn't feel in
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  Speaker 1: line with where I was trying to go that could
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  Speaker 1: potentially pigeonhole me from having that freedom as an artist,
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  Speaker 1: it was very helpful. Janelle's new thriller Antebellum hits Theater
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  Speaker 1: Saw four that's direct from Hollywood.