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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Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
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Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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Siemens is a job machine.
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So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.
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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.
