Jamila Woods Quotes
I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
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I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
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I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.
