Jill Scott Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
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So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters.
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I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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I want everyone to eat whatever makes them happy.
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My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.
