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.
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
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Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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Teams go on runs. We have to be able to withstand a run and not get down on ourselves.
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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.
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Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
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The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.
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I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
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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.
