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Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.Collection: Jill
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.Collection: Jill
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.Collection: Jill
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.Collection: Jill
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.Collection: Jill
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.Collection: Jill
Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.Collection: Jill
Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.Collection: Jill
Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.Collection: Jill
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.Collection: Jill
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.Collection: Jill
Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.Collection: Jill
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.Collection: Jill
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.Collection: Jill
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.Collection: Jill
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.Collection: Jill
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.Collection: Jill
Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.Collection: Jill
From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.Collection: Jill
You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.Collection: Jill
To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'Collection: Jill
The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, it's kind of like winning the lottery. The independent film world is a world you can actually get to. You can get the under-a-million-dollar film by finding a good cast and financing.Collection: Jill
I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.Collection: Jill
I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.Collection: Jill
Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' - and it's those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats.Collection: Jill
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.Collection: Jill
The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'Collection: Jill
I am beyond excited to share 'Transparent' with the world through Amazon. They've been so supportive through this incredible process.Collection: Jill
The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.Collection: Jill
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.Collection: Jill
Some of you guys are going to boo, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't like dogs.Collection: Jill
I was the kind of Jew who'd be in a bar, somebody would say it's Yom Kippur, and I'd go, 'Really?'Collection: Jill
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.Collection: Jill
I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.Collection: Jill
I was running the show on 'United States of Tara' and 'How To Make It In America' where I could say, 'Okay, I'm in charge of everything now.' But it still wasn't my show.Collection: Jill
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.Collection: Jill
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.Collection: Jill
The inbox is always open in my brain, and anyone can get in any time and access me. Turning it off is taking back control. I decide who gets in. It's about emotional privacy, having a self.Collection: Jill
My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.Collection: Jill
I like to create a community where people want to come and have a good time and do their best work.Collection: Jill
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.Collection: Jill
You just have to say over and over again: 'I am a director.' Nobody gives it to you. Nobody anoints you.Collection: Jill
A lot of the people I know connect through working. We're all so ambitious. Sometimes my friends will say, 'I want to hang out with you.' And I just go, 'Well, let's do a project together.' That's the only way I can.Collection: Jill
It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.Collection: Jill
I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.Collection: Jill
I love the Army-Navy surplus store Surplus Value Center. They have really good long underwear and multicolored bandanas, cool camo jackets, and really, really scary-looking knives. If you're into that sort of thing.Collection: Jill
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.Collection: Jill
For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.Collection: Jill
If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it.Collection: Jill
Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.Collection: Jill