Jill Scott Quotes

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

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• I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Wisdom

• The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Popular
  • Seems
  • Celebration

• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • True
  • Man

• As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Real
  • Weird
  • Yourself

• People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Story
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Find
  • Old
  • Jackson

• I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Lost
  • Relationship
  • Simple

• There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Fashion

• Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Up
  • Children

• My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

  

  Alfonso Soriano
  • People
  • Latin

• I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • School
  • Job

• People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

  

  James Gleick
  • People
  • Important
  • Character

• To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lonely
  • Mystery
  • Massachusetts

• We met with a lot of great labels, including J. We like Clive Davis and his staff a lot. There's a level of respect there that went both ways.

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Respect
  • Staff
  • Great Labels

• Caddy smelled like trees.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Trees
  • Smelled
  • Caddy

• To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

  

  Jill Scott