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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Adhir Kalyan
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• I just typed up three, four paragraphs of an idea and dropped it in a box at the Chicago Comic Con in the summer of 2000, I guess, or 2001 - I forget. I just dropped it on a stack of a giant pile of dozens of other entries. Months later, I was thrilled to get a call from a Marvel editor while I was working my crappy day-job.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Up
  • Job
  • Summer

• The abundance of books is distraction

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Books
  • Abundance
  • Distraction

• I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured, she didn't want to be there, she was unhappy, she was banging away in the kitchen, the way that a prisoner would bang on her jail cell, you know, really unhappy. She had to cook for nine people with really little money, so she really just got burned out. So I didn't know that you could actually cook and it would be calming, pleasurable.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • War
  • Kitchen

• I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

  

  Ann Curry
  • Live
  • Purpose

• 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