Jill Scott Quotes
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
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I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
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There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
