Jill Scott Quotes
I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
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I thought back to my middle-school experience of having slumber parties and watching Romeo + Juliet and staring at Leo and thinking about my first kiss and what I wanted it to be like. And when you have your first real love, it's an epiphany, you know? It's like a whole new world.
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I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.
