Jill Sobule Quotes
I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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We are awaiting the police assessment of the video.
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
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I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.
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Love and a good sense of humour strengthen the entire body; remember your cells respond to your input.
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I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.
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I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
