Heidi Julavits Quotes

I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

Heidi Julavits

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• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • World
  • Career
  • Thought

• I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Up
  • Star
  • Movies

• A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

  

  Omar Epps
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Instincts

• Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.

  

  Ovid

• Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.

  

  Alphonse Allais

• The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

  

  James Gleick
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Science

• I've had relationships with people from all over the world, but there has never been enough time in a day for me to have anything other than just close relationships. I've never been one to give myself over to anybody. I don't know what is wrong with me, but it never happened.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Childhood

• By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • King

• Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

  

  Konrad Adenauer

• Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is - a combination of world-weariness and exuberance, an instrument that he's mastered for specific comic shadings.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • World

• It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

  

  Jerry Leiber
  • Black
  • Luck

• You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Great
  • Money

• For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • People
  • Black

• I'm a Southern girl.

  

  Brooke Burns
  • Girl

• I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

  

  Jane Wyman
  • Women

• I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Coffee

• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Distance

• In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Islamic
  • Hypocrite
  • Fake People

• When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?

  

  Tracii Guns L.A. Guns
  • Time
  • Genius
  • Flow

• I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Fake People
  • Fake house
  • Fake school