Jill Scott Quotes

I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.

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• Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Audience

• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Artist

• I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Great
  • Movie

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Done
  • Should
  • Information

• The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Up
  • Question
  • Perfume

• If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Way
  • Interesting

• I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Art
  • Power
  • True

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Competition

• We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Live
  • Die
  • Best

• When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Lives
  • Girls

• President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • President
  • Media
  • Sure

• Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Help
  • Audience
  • Find

• I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Potent
  • Vigorous
  • Virile

• I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • She
  • Girl
  • Red

• I've been a writer since I was 13. I've been writing scripts and having pitch meetings. So, when I do see people like Brit Marling getting things done, it lets me know that it's possible. It basically just tells me, 'Dude, get to work!' For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• With our team, we're still learning what's a good enough lead. We didn't use the clock wisely and they made some big plays.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Team
  • Learning

• With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Character
  • Parents

• With workout classes, I always want to know that I can improve with each class I take. But I don't think I'll ever master the art of peddling quickly with little resistance, at least not without feeling like I'm going to fly off the bike.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Art
  • Feeling
  • Fly

• I look back at my days at Iowa, and we walked out on the football field with those guys, and we had no doubt we were going to win. It didn't matter what anyone was saying or doing. We walked out there knowing what we had was good enough to win. That's a great feeling.

  

  Nate Kaeding
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Win

• I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Free
  • Feeling