Jill Soloway Quotes
I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
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Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.
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It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it…The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.
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The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.
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I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
