Jamelia Quotes
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.
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Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop around, and you need to invest in its naturalistic reality more. But I love writing both, precisely because they're so different.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair.
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Obviously I wouldn't be able to do it without the support of so many people.
