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All Quotes by author - Jill Soloway

" 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. "

" Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you. "

" For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a manicure, getting a pedicure, getting my workout in, making sure that I ate healthy. Those things can become treacherous to the mind. "

" Getting into Sundance is a certain sort of passport to a level of anxiety I've never experienced, even having had a baby in the NICU for a week. For about ten minutes, you're a world-class director. Then you become an entry-level, harried, low level concierge with absolutely no juice. "

" If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze. "

" If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it. "

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

" I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis. "

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

" I'm constantly confused about how to dress. "

" 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. "

" Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture. "

" My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen. "

" Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world. "

" On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir. "

" People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead. "

" There's something about the kind of unconditional wild joy of creating that you have with your siblings that I am always trying to get back to. "

" 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. "

" We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly. "

" We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves. "

" 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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