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In Her Shoes: Jurnee Smollett

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When Did Your Mom Help You Cultivate a Taste?

I don't know that I realized necessarily how big or small it was. It's more so that it just put me in touch with a deeper level of what we were capable of as instruments, as artists, right? And so it just made me hungry to constantly try to achieve that or experience that high that you experience as an artist. Also I have to give my mom credit. My mom really made me study the craft and study the greats and kind of held me to a standard. She had me reading the autobiography of Katherine Hepburn when I was 13 years old. So while I haven't always hit the mark, I'm not gonna lie. It's always been my goal,

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