Jill Soloway Quotes

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Jill Soloway

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 26, 1965

I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a TV writer. I had the executive producer title. I was running the room.

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Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

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If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

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Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

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I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

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When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

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I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

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I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place.

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I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

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I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

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Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

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When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

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I think I've always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I'm dressed like a boy, when I'm dressed more masculine.

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It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.

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It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

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I'm constantly confused about how to dress.

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Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.

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I love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.

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In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

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Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

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