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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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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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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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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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 think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
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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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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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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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Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. ... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
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Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
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Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
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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.
