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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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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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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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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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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I created FEED as a way to provide people with a tangible way to make an impact in the fight against hunger, with each purchase of a FEED product donating meals directly to children in need.
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I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal issues most important to me? Absolutely. I have an affinity with them, but I also care about children and the elderly and always say that the rest of everybody else can fend for themselves because we're in a age where we can. And we're all able to do so.
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A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
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One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.
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In my orchestra, I hate slackness, idle talk and lost time. I always hated this and still hate it. But I can achieve much more when I am quiet and not shouting.
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I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
