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.

Jamila Woods

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• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• 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.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• 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!

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • City
  • Born
  • New

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• 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.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Person
  • Expect

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• The simple things in life make me very happy.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Simple

• Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Fighting
  • Sword

• 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.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Country
  • You
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• 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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Person

• I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Always
  • More
  • Vietnam

• The camera photographs what's there.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Camera
  • Photographs

• 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.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Door
  • Walking
  • Clothes

• Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Looking

• Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

  

  Liv Tyler
  • Life
  • Food
  • Everyday

• My mother loved movies, and I loved movies like she loved movies. So I wanted to do that. I'd send away for movie magazines - the old thing of everybody wanting to be a star or whatever.

  

  Anne Meara
  • She
  • Movie
  • Mother

• School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I'm just bad with numbers.

  

  Amy Adams
  • School
  • Bad

• No philosopher would be willing to accept the idea of philosophy as a way of escape, but might there not be a question of the philosopher being in duty bound to refuse to accept a world, like our real world here, of disorder and crime where the values of the mind and spirit can no longer find a home?

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Always
  • Luck

• 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.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Good
  • City
  • Challenge