Jamila Woods Quotes
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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Kanye and Pharrell are in fashion. Why not J Balvin?
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.
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Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.
