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Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

Jill Scott

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Jill Scott
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 4
Actor
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Poet
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Jill Heather Scott
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It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
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Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.
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When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.
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All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.
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People think that lemon is good for the voice, but it dries it out.
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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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I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'
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'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.
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Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.
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My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.
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I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.
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Sometimes, for principle, your gonna have to kick some ass.
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One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.
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I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?
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My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.
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