Jill Scott Quotes
I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.
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I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
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You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
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I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.
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I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.
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I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.
