Jill Scott Quotes
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.
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The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
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I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.
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I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
