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.
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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.
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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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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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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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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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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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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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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.
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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.
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'Visitation' reflects the era of the absentee father; 'parent time' influences the re-emergence of the involved father. 'Visitation' reflects the destruction of the family; 'parent time' influences the reconstruction of the family. 'Parent time' influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
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Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
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When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
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Now, at this very minute, another thing is happening which we cannot hear because most paintings do not have a sound-track. Peter is inventing the word 'simony' to explain ecclesiastical purchase-power, for which, since his Church later exercised it so expertly, Simon Magus ought to be revered as a patron not a rogue.
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I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.
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I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way.
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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.
