Jill Scott Quotes

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

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• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Girl
  • Myself

• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Know
  • Never
  • Gun

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.

  

  Washed Out
  • Done
  • Start
  • Therapy

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Emotional
  • Enough

• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Same

• Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

  

  B. B. King
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Poetry

• It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Music
  • Marriage
  • Picture

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Equality

• I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Love
  • Know
  • Lost

• I left the stage because I thought I had to shit, but then I lost the feeling.

  

  Peter Steele
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.

  

  Jessica Raine
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • People
  • Help

• When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

  

  Elon Musk
  • World
  • College

• I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Feeling
  • Amazing