Jill Scott Quotes
Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.
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I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C. A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.
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I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
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Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.
