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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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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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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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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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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My wife and I, we don't leave the house; we have dinner at home.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Say my shoe game nuts so I call em cashews Every other city it's another Nicki tattoo
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There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
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You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.
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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.
