Jessica Williams Quotes
My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it's all very low maintenance. I feel like I can get up and go and get out of the house. I just don't have it in me to get my hair done all the time.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.
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I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
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World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
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A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
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My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it's all very low maintenance. I feel like I can get up and go and get out of the house. I just don't have it in me to get my hair done all the time.
