Heidi Julavits Quotes

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.

Heidi Julavits

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• My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • See
  • My Life

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Work
  • Freedom

• From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Violence
  • Beauty
  • Cowboy

• Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Space
  • Starting
  • Jeans

• My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Girl
  • Comedy

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Sister

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Struggle

• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Self

• My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Way
  • Best
  • Give

• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Truth
  • Dream
  • Teacher

• The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Sea
  • Fish

• And because no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage because it's lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office. It's time for the minimum wage to go up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Long
  • Death
  • Water

• For a label for me, 'conservative' is more appropriate than 'Republican.'

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.

• Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Great
  • Cool
  • Place

• Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the wrestling that's how I got the takedowns.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Style
  • Wrestling
  • Karate

• A warrior has only one true friend: himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • True

• I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Songs
  • Wheel
  • Reinvent

• I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Women
  • Style
  • Ambitious