Jill Scott Quotes
When Jett puts my face in his hands and tells me, 'Mommy you're so pretty' or smells me, it's so wonderful.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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I don't eat red meat.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.
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Donald Trump is a dream for business people like me. I think Trump's going to make pharma great again.
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It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.'
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Well, Mr. Baldwin, this is a pretty kettle of fish!
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When Jett puts my face in his hands and tells me, 'Mommy you're so pretty' or smells me, it's so wonderful.
