Jamila Woods Quotes
Part of what I like about living in Chicago is it's not easy. The breath of the city, the everyday challenge of it, is good. It forces you to grow and push yourself.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'
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Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
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Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.
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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency.
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My dad was an actor, and he always said that work was work; you can't turn your nose up at it. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, and he had this real work ethic, which I inherited.
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Part of what I like about living in Chicago is it's not easy. The breath of the city, the everyday challenge of it, is good. It forces you to grow and push yourself.
