Jill Soloway Quotes
So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos, academics, just the people who don't normally get marketed to, in some way I kinda hoped that if I could collect all of them, I could say, "Hey! Look over here! There are enough people who like my stuff." And it sorta has seemed to be true.Jill Soloway
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Sally Rand -
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken -
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed -
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor Swift -
In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
Wallace Shawn -
Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
Ike Barinholtz
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
Rainn Wilson -
I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
Beatrice Dalle -
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
Warwick Davis -
Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.
Randy Pausch -
A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
Harold Hamm -
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C. S. Lewis -
You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
Daniel Hope -
When I do videos, it's just myself.
Kian Lawley -
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
Peabo Bryson -
I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
Arlie Russell Hochschild -
I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.
Ed Kowalczyk
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Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it's actually getting what it thinks it is.
Antonio Garcia Martinez -
After '8 Mile' came out and blew up, the ball has been rolling ever since.
Omar Benson Miller -
You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.
Martha Wainwright -
Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.
Robert James Ritchi -
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
Frank Zappa -
So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos, academics, just the people who don't normally get marketed to, in some way I kinda hoped that if I could collect all of them, I could say, "Hey! Look over here! There are enough people who like my stuff." And it sorta has seemed to be true.
Jill Soloway