Jamila Woods Quotes
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I am turning into the person I knew I would.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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The crazy thing about the dab is like - dance moves, once you create them, they last forever.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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So I guess I'll remain the same. Sittin' here restin' my bones. Wish this loneliness would leave me alone. For 2,000 miles I roamedJust to make this dock my home. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.
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I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.
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Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
