Jill Scott Quotes

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

Jill Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

WarPovertyPlaceNewsAfricaSee

I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

Jennifer Egan

HopeTimeAmazingMeWritingLong

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton

OvercomeForceHalfWhoHisFoe

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

Amanda Lear

BestMeStoryTellTried

I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.

Tony Greig

BusinessCommunityPeopleTeamTwo

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

Rivers Cuomo

MusicHelpMeditationBackTry

Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.

Rob Bell

PeopleWorldPerformanceArtistOver

You're in front of an audience and thinking off the top of your head - you're going to say things that offend people sometimes. Sometimes I'll be driving home, and I'll be like, 'Oh, crap, I shouldn't have said that.'

Ross Mathews

HomePeopleThinkingDrivingYou

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

Michael York

ChildDoingYoungNiceAirportUp

Losing a part of a breast or all of one or both has, obviously, serious psychological consequences.

Molly Ivins

LosingConsequencesSeriousPart

I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.

Jose Andres

WifeAmazingMeThreeAlwaysKeep

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

Jonathan Haidt

ChangeFocusPeopleBelieveYou

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

Dolores O'Riordan

WomanGoYoungThroughThingsFar

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