Jill Soloway Quotes
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!
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I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.
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Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.
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The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.
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Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.
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I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.
