Jill Scott
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ELLA HENDERSON JUSTIN CHON 'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was re... LUIS FONSI DYLAN MORAN LYDIA DAVIS I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott... YVETTE NICOLE BROWN When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.' FLUME 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school whe... JAKE T. AUSTIN BOB NEWHART ALEK WEK MARK LEYNER JERRY GARCIA I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just beca... ALISON PILL When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simulta... PAOLO BACIGALUPI HELEN FIELDING GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many pe... OSCAR NUNEZ I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. ... PADDY CONSIDINE SARAH KAY CHRISTOPHER MOORE I love Viola Davis. I call her 'Queen.' I think she's phenomenal. She's so raw and s... ANNA DIOP JILL SCOTT NATASHA TRETHEWEY I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE KELSEA BALLERINI I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing ... JULIE WALTERS TOM LEHRER I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like ... OLGA FONDA KELSEA BALLERINI 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ... BARRY MANILOW SARAH SHAHI GARRETT HEDLUND REBEL WILSON KHALED HOSSEINI I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ... LESLEY GORE ROB LOWE I saw it happen and I was like wow I thought she was hurt worse than she was but I heard she's prett... CHRIS LOWERY There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even ... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY ELMORE LEONARD RACHEL DRATCH It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged w... DANIEL BERRIGAN 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ... JEFF KINNEY I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much tim... FINN WITTROCK JENA MALONE I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away. JOHN ARVIN JUNOT DIAZ I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some o... BIANCA LAWSON GAYLE FORMAN CHARLIE PUTH DAVID GERROLD ERYKAH BADU I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe... BONNIE MCKEE ANGELINA JOLIE VERONICA ROTH Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was ... ROONEY MARA KARA WALKER When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stor... MICHAEL FOREMAN There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else... GARRY MARSHALL LIZA MINNELLI I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' ... TITUSS BURGESS When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a litt... WILLIAM BELL WILLIE NELSON My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in A... MAIARA WALSH That was a great day for Nikki. She was just a double away from hitting for the cycle. GREG SHIVERS I thought it was fabulous, Julia Roberts incredible, Paul Rudd – above and beyond. Oh my God, she ... DAVID GORDON I thought it was fabulous, Julia Roberts incredible, Paul Rudd above and beyond. Oh my God, she w... DAVID GORDON BRYSON TILLER On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was... MARC FORSTER When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD LYNN COADY E. L. DOCTOROW I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and m... BROOKE BURNS Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS GREG RUCKA I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I s... JANIS IAN BRIAN K. VAUGHAN I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of ... D. B. SWEENEY I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mos... SARAH STEELE It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy w... MAREN MORRIS ALICIA VIKANDER It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind.... BILL MEDLEY NORA ROBERTS HELEN OYEYEMI I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And... DAN GILROY
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JILL ABRAMSON By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take aw... JILL MCCORKLE Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective ... JILL ABRAMSON JILL LEPORE For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more ... JILL MCCORKLE I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love ... JILL GREENBERG JILL LEPORE There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fea... JILL CLAYBURGH JILL TARTER Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' -... JILL SOLOWAY The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evoluti... JILL GREENBERG JILL BENNETT JILL PETERSON It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far... JILL TWEEDIE The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids JILL BENSLEY The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect moth... JILL CHURCHILL JILL STEIN JILL LEPORE I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been fe... JILL SOLOWAY JILL DANDO JILL STEIN JILL LEPORE JILL TARTER I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or de... JILL HENNESSY JILL TARTER JILL LEPORE I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way ... JILL MCCORKLE My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person i... JILL MCCORKLE JILL STEIN I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distri... JILL SOLOWAY At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five c... JILL WAGNER JILL STEIN JILL ROBINSON JILL LEPORE JILL TARTER JILL LEPORE Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children ... JILL GREENBERG JILL STEIN I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my car... JILL WAGNER You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can thin... JILL ABRAMSON JILL TARTER On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some... JILL SOLOWAY JILL LEPORE Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also lik... JILL SOLOWAY Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you. JILL SHALVIS My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spe... JILL SOLOWAY I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories... JILL KARGMAN I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are,... JILL WAGNER JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction... JILL GREENBERG With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the p... JILL ABRAMSON JILL STEIN It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer. JILL SOLOWAY JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum. JILL SOBULE JILL STEIN JILL STEIN I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have re... JILL ABRAMSON There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one JILL CHURCHILL JILL STEIN JILL DANDO Our behavior and attitude, good, bad or indifferent, is leaking into the earth's environmental energ... JILL KNEER When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,you can give up, give in, or you c... JILL ANZINGER Few are those whom this courage find.
They keep their eyes upon the goal,
and through this journey a... JILL ANZINGER I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is... JILL SOLOWAY JILL TARTER When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this fun... JILL SOLOWAY JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE JILL STEIN JILL LEPORE To inspire love within each other, we realize the fulfillment of our own hearts longing. JILL ANZINGER In the space between a breath and a heartbeat I can feel it, pulling,yearning. Limbs and hearts pass... JILL ANZINGER Flying high, the memory of you takes me down, but for you I don't mind falling.Your love raised me t... JILL ANZINGER As a stone tumbled in coarse reality,
constantly worn as it is refined,
adversity, it's true beauty ... JILL ANZINGER JILL STEIN Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring ... JILL SOLOWAY The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, i... JILL SOLOWAY I do eventually want to get married, but whether I end up marrying a guy or a girl, I'll still be in... JILL RANEY For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and La... JILL SOLOWAY We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken. True strength is found in picking up the... JILL ANZINGER Even when we grow up we call still whisper our wishes upon the wind,as a child does in innocence, br... JILL ANZINGER If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's alway... JILL SOLOWAY I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a ... JILL SOLOWAY Reaching skyward; no longer leaning,
we grow well and strong,
our friendship reinforced, in the know... JILL ANZINGER JILL STEIN JILL ROBINSON JILL LEPORE My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruci... JILL TWEEDIE Men, I feel are like wine - before buying, a real connoisseur takes a small sip, and spits them out JILL TWEEDIE It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far... JILL TWEEDIE 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' as said by John Lennon. JILL MELTON JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of... JILL SOBULE I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on t... JILL ABRAMSON Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create ... JILL SOLOWAY This is a convicted felon. This goes to a larger issue: Bob Menendez has based his entire political ... JILL HAZELBAKER JILL STEIN Peace is an offshoot of love....it too can grow. JILL KNEER We took some of those individuals and conducted some special training on range-of-motion and other e... JILL JANSSEN It's a new gown based on one of Jackie Kennedy's favorite gowns. It was one of the only ones she eve... JILL HENNESSY If you massage a baby when asleep or physically ill with a fever, the benefits are not the same. As ... JILL VYSE JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE I can't believe you didn't tell me you have a phone."JILL MYLES JILL STEIN I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, sa... JILL SOLOWAY I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your... JILL CLAYBURGH To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and,... JILL SOLOWAY For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a mani... JILL SOLOWAY JILL LEPORE JILL LEPORE Without the kindness of strangers, where would we be? JILL JOHNSON All of life seems like that. Once we settle into some phase or other, and become attached to it, som... JILL JOHNSTON Terry liked him a lot. I don't know how they connected. He lived close to where we were in the Dalla... JILL STAUTNER He was as white as a ghost in that ambulance. It was very scary. JILL SELTZER JILL LEPORE JILL STEIN JILL STEIN We try to keep tabs on our intellectual property, but sometimes it's difficult to make sure that inf... JILL STELFOX JILL TARTER The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society. JILL RUCKELSHAUS JILL STEIN Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller&#... JILL DAVIS I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the seren... JILL ABRAMSON My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; bu... JILL ABRAMSON We're appalled. This city is built on tourism, and we're their last priority. JILL JOHNSON We're appalled, JILL JOHNSON Were appalled. This city is built on tourism, and were their last priority. JILL JOHNSON We’re appalled, ... This city is built on tourism, and we’re their last priority. JILL JOHNSON
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... 
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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. 
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