Jill Scott Quotes
When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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The universe is my ashram, and every heart is my house, but I manifest only in those hearts in which all other than me ceases to live.
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Boston is pretty infamous for race relations.
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When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
