Jill Scott Quotes
Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill. However, everyone is always looking for the Jill in everything.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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I'm always working on music.
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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
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I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
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I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
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Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill. However, everyone is always looking for the Jill in everything.
