Jill Soloway Quotes

It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.

Jill Soloway

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• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

  

  J. Cole
  • President
  • Successful
  • Skin

• Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Key
  • Apple

• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Criticism

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Thoughts
  • Politeness

• The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Short

• Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Down

• I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I still can't pay attention - and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Work
  • Art
  • Guilty

• First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• Writing has to support itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Support
  • Itself

• A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perception

• Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

  

  Logic
  • Art
  • May
  • Confidence

• The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Work
  • Art
  • Faith

• I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

  

  Jonathan Hickman
  • Writing
  • Control

• A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Men
  • Children
  • Wife

• If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • History

• The issue of women in the workplace is not a women's issue: it's an economic problem.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Women
  • Workplace

• Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Life
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Successful