Jill Scott Quotes

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

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• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

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• You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

  

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• I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

  

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• Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

  

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• All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

  

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• Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

  

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• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

  

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• I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

  

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• Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

  

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• Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

  

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• I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

  

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• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

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• 'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• Estoy solo entre materias desvencijadas,la lluvia cae sobre mí, y se me parece,se me parece con su desvarío,solitaria en el mundo muerto,rechazada al caer, y sin forma obstinada.

  

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• I do not think we are deceived to grow, But that the crudest fancy, slightest show, Covers some separate truth that we may know.In the one Truth, each separate fact is true; Eternally in one I many view, And destinies through destiny pursue.

  

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• There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.

  

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• I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.

  

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• It's hard to stop loving someone on cue, especially when he's still so kind and loving toward you.

  

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• When Free came together, there was a creative magic around us, something unique and different.

  

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• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

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• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

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• Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

  

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• My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Nasty