Jill Soloway Quotes

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.

Jill Soloway

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LifeAloneTimeHappyBeing Alone

I wish I was better looking.

Mel Brooks

LookingBetterWishI Wish

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

Merle Haggard

LifeMy LifeBackEarlyInjuryHad

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

John Ruskin

LiveDieKnowWhoHowDoes

I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

Matt Bomer

FootballAlwaysGuyWhoFringeDid

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

Roy Blount, Jr.

DieWantNeedNeighborhoodsAuthors

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

Mo Ibrahim

LeadershipFaceCrisisAfricaMust

My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.

Milana Vayntrub

FamilyHomeGrandmotherSheJewish

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorldSillyYouPlaceNewChicago

I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

Don McLean

LoveThankfulPeopleMeBetterLook

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

MusicMeWillAlwaysMostThing

I think that during college, I would say I did not enjoy playing soccer.

Christen Press

CollegeThinkEnjoySoccerSayDid

I'm told I'm an incredible flirt because I don't know I'm doing it. I don't want to even analyse it, but I seduce people, apparently; I suck them in.

Suzi Quatro

PeopleDoingKnowWantFlirtSuck

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