Jill Soloway Quotes

I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

Jill Soloway

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• I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • You
  • Big

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Day

• I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Celebrity

• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Lost
  • Party

• I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Kids
  • Hair
  • Child

• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • School
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If you do something, expect consequences.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Expect
  • Consequences

• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Money
  • Rest

• Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

  

  Quintilian
  • Work
  • Talent
  • Student

• We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Reason
  • Movies
  • Theater

• A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Young Man

• Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • True
  • Respect

• Teams go on runs. We have to be able to withstand a run and not get down on ourselves.

  

  Blake Griffin

• One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Up
  • Awesome

• There's been a bit of confusion about Showscan. The basic problem was, it was film and it was 70 mm and it was a lot of it, so the negative cost was very high, the print costs were very high, and it also required conversion of the projectors and theaters and a lot of costs. I just couldn't get any traction in the theatrical movie industry to do it.

  

  Douglas Trumbull
  • Movie
  • High

• Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

  

  William Henry Harrison
  • Responsibility
  • Religious
  • Moral

• I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Jobs

• I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Meetings
  • Holocaust
  • Tattoo