Jill Scott Quotes
A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.
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I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.
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I have a restaurant in Sri Lanka, and I feel keen to open up something here in Mumbai and bring Sri Lankan food here in India. I feel we have so much in common, but we have a different cuisine, and I am sure people will enjoy here.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
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If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.
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A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
