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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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I believe that every person's individual testimony of Jesus as the Christ comes as a spiritual gift. No one can successfully dispute or challenge it because it is so personal a gift to the one to whom it has been given.
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The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
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One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
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A story that must be told never forgives silence.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
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For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn't understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home.
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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.
