Jill Scott Quotes
I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
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I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my 'accomplishments' from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
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I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.
