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!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Judging
  • Surprise

• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Collage

• 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.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Today
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• 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.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Survival

• Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

  

  Andre Holland

• 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

  

  Brigitte Boisselier

• You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos
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• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • Mind
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• The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

  

  The Weeknd
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• Over the years, it seems 'Firefly' has only gained momentum rather than lost it. I still get letters from people who watched the show - I get more 'Firefly' than 'Mad Men' letters.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • People
  • Men
  • Lost

• Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Sacrifice

• When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

  

  Alexandra Paul
  • Car
  • Angry

• Greed has no boundaries.

  

  Aristotle
  • Greed
  • Boundaries

• I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

  

  Sara Paxton
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Actresses

• I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Why

• Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.

  

  Heidi Julavits
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