Oprah Winfrey
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I mean, I think I could have done a whole book now on Sundays with Sidney because he just imparted so much wisdom and care.
And I think of him because he and I used to get into these ongoing arguments about, he would say, the forces of life.
And I would say, why don't you just call it God?
I'm not comfortable saying God, but if you're comfortable saying God, I can accept that.
So he called it the forces of life.
Now I'm comfortable with whatever name you want to use it.
And so I would want to say to Sidney, I regret that I didn't.
Well, it was not only just Sydney, but when I first started, I was so overwhelmed.
I remember interviewing Justin Bieber when he turned 18.
And I said to him, I really feel for you because it's really hard to
When you get discovered on YouTube at 12 and you think this is the life, you think that, you know, people telling you how wonderful you are, that that's the life.
And where are you going to find the space to figure out yourself, who you are in all of this?
One of the great things for me is that it happened, the whole attention thing came when I was already 30 years old.
But I was still like, how do you do this and what should you do about that?
And I had Quincy, I had Sidney Poitier, and I had Maya Angelou.