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"I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching."
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Source: Dave Chappelle: 'I Wasn't Crazy' by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2006.
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