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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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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.
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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.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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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.
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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).
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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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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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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.
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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.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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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.
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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.
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Titan has rivers and lakes of liquid methane and ethane, methane weather systems of clouds and storms that mirror Earth's hydrologic cycle, and seasonal cycles that rival Earth's in complexity.
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I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.
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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
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In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
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I think I can always shoot 3s. I think I can shoot 3s when I'm 60.
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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.
