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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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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Preparation is everything.
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It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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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.
