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By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.

By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.


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Aja Naomi King (born January 11, 1985)[1] is an American actress. She began her career in guest-starring roles on television, and starred as Cassandra Kopelson in the The CW medical comedy-drama Emily Owens, M.D..

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Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.

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You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

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I'm a little bit of a control freak, so it's been nice to learn to let go and just trust others.

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I'm at a place where I want to have fun. I want to be challenged. I want to love the people I work with and continue to appreciate being in the position to work and play and explore.

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I majored in theater, so I'd love to get back on a stage.

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When I was younger, my mother tried to get me an agent because I was always singing and dancing, but whenever she took me to an audition, I would just shut down.

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It's such a big deal, the notion that these enslaved Africans had marriages and children... because therein lies our humanity, our capacity for love.

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If you ask two people to remember a specific event, the stories are going to vary wildly because we always make ourselves out to be the hero.

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