Jamila Woods Quotes
The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...
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The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
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You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
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The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.
