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
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• 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
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Missing

• 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
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• 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
  • Long
  • You
  • Movies

• 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
  • People
  • Trying
  • College

• 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
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Being
  • Comfortable
  • Exposed

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• 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
  • God
  • May
  • Feeling

• 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
  • Up
  • She

• 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
  • Work
  • Family

• I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Proud
  • Rock

• In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

  

  Mary Grandpre
  • Wonder
  • Unknown

• We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • America

• You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Up
  • Pride

• I'm a big guy, but I play with a guard mentality. I got that from my dad, and it's always stayed with me.

  

  Ben Simmons
  • Guy
  • Dad

• From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't any opportunities for that.

  

  Lauren Miller
  • Age
  • Small

• A social worker named Cosette Rae, along with a therapist named Hilarie Cash, founded 'ReSTART' in what, until then, had been Rae's house.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • House

• For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • May

• Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • House
  • Lightness
  • Circling

• 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
  • People
  • Gay
  • Enough