Heidi Julavits Quotes
It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
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Originality is dangerous.
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We Franz Marc & Kandinsky thought up the name Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) while sitting at a cafe table.. .Both of us were fond of blue things, Franz Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself.
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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.
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I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
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I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
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The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
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It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.
