{"author":"Janet Jackson","author_id":"Janet+Jackson","total_quotes":23,"quotes":[{"text":"In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["love","family","good "],"id":748,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["food","space","me "],"id":7123,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["kid","pretty","had "],"id":56256,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["good","great","competition "],"id":62892,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["work","family","myself "],"id":69427,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["hair","responsible","up "],"id":70814,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["life","know","nothing "],"id":78904,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["life","me","my life "],"id":80790,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like working out any more, so you don't want to keep yourself fit any more, but that's your decision. Why should you be judged for it?","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["decision","moment","yourself "],"id":149107,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"},{"text":"I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.","author":"Janet Jackson","tags":["happy","baby","i am "],"id":151432,"author_id":"Janet+Jackson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}