Jamila Woods Quotes
It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
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Not I, but the city teaches.
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I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually my lyrics are the last thing to go onto a song. For years and years I only ever did instrumental, so I'm still trying to get confidant with my lyrics and find the right balance. I'll generally get inspired from the music. I'll have a guitar line, and then I'll have a melody line, and I hook the lyrics up to fit that rhythm. So, my lyrics to tend be very rhythmic as well. They work with the music rather than the music works around them.
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There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.
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It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.
