Jill Scott Quotes
For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
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The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.
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We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!
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I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.
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The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life
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For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.
