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.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Connection

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• 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.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• 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.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Parents
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Times
  • Project
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • You
  • Decision
  • Forgive

• 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.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Confidence
  • Confident
  • Qualities

• 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.'

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Girl
  • My Own
  • Bedroom

• 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.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Games
  • Rules
  • Percent

• 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.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • Trying
  • Cooperation

• The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Word
  • Verb

• 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.'

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Moment

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • School

• I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • People
  • Divorce
  • Fitness

• Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Work
  • Art
  • Strong

• I was gonna live with Todd Gill, another young player, and the general manager grabbed me by the collar, put me against the wall and said, 'You're living with a family. Find one,'

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Live
  • Family
  • Player

• When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Live
  • Art