Jill Scott Quotes
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
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The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap.
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You can hear songs that are technically great, songs that tick all the boxes. But for a song to be felt, you need something else.
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Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
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I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers.
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I'm sorry that 'Fringe' is gone. I really wanted to do more on that show. It was great!
