"It's a matter of patience, it's a matter of resilience, and I'm not going to give up", she says.

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The fact of the matter is I'm asked to do it by governors or mayors or presidents or attorneys general.

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Mr. DON CHEADLE (Actor): You are what you have to defend, because it doesn't matter that I'm 19 percent European, 81 percent African.

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To many in the industry, it was never a matter of if but when the ratings-challenged network would decide to can the 10 p.m. talk show experiment.

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