Heidi Julavits Quotes
Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and I need to escape.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
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I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
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The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment.
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I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
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Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
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It's tricky to get people to go see a movie in theaters today. 'Blair Witch' is playing in D-Box Theaters with the shaking seats. Just think if they gave you a 360-degree headset. Everyone would want to go to the movie.
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Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and I need to escape.
