Jill Soloway Quotes
We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless.
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Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
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The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the people that we wanted to model ourselves after. Throwing on the Cartier frames, the army-style fatigue jackets.
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In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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I like people who can and like to make fun of themselves!
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Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
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When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
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When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months. We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.
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We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless.
