Jill Scott Quotes
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens -
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
Sally Hawkins -
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
Naomie Harris -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
Carine Roitfeld
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
Tao Lin -
With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
Garth Nix -
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole -
A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh -
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
W. C. Fields
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly -
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
Rachel Cusk -
The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Yogi Berra
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
Ralph Fiennes -
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
Tavi Gevinson -
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
Azim Premji -
And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.
Kelly Clarkson -
I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.
Jill Scott