Jill Scott Quotes
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When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.
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I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.
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I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.
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Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.
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Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
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If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.
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I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
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Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
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Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.
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I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.
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When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
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I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.
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A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.
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I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.
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I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.
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I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.
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Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun.' But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real.
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Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.
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Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
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A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
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I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
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I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.
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There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.
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I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.