Jill Soloway Quotes
I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.
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It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.
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I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
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I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.
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I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.
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It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
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I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.
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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
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In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.
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I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.
