Jill Soloway Quotes

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

Jill Soloway

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• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

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• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

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• When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

  

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• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

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• And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
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• Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

  

  Sam Harris
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• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

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• Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

  

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• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.

  

  Tahl Raz
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• If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.

  

  Laura Miller
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• God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

  

  D. A. Carson
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• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  

  Vincent Canby
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• Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.

  

  Larenz Tate
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• I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

  

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• The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.

  

  Loni Love
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• I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, 'Hello, Gielgud here, any work?' Good on him. We've got to keep working. If we retire, there'll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.

  

  Charles Dance
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• People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.

  

  LaToya London
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• I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.

  

  Katie Taylor

• I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • Narrative
  • Flashback