Jill Scott Quotes
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.
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I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
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Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.
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A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
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My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
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When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
