Jill Scott Quotes
I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.
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I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.
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Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
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I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!
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I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.
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I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.
