Heidi Julavits Quotes
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.
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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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Shakespeare is definitely my first love.
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'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.
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You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.
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There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
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The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
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Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
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I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.
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I'm the same guy. I'm trying make sure I focus on what I'm supposed to be focusing on which is playing ball. I'm trying all out. Everything else is just B.S.
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
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Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.
