Jill Soloway Quotes
I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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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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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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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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Is the 'black designer' label there to warn everyone not to have the same level of expectations for me, or is it some type of prize? I just want to work in an even playing field where I can get press for my work and not just my race and my personal views on it.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.
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I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
