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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How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.
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I definitely fell in love with Dracula when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.
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A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
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You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made for women because we're quicker and we're smaller than men, and so we're faster. You girls really should take martial arts.
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There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.
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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.
