Heidi Julavits Quotes
I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my face told the world instead.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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The essential difference, which we meet in entering the realm of spirit and mind, seems to hang round the word 'Ought.'
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When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.
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I've always felt like an outcast. My aesthetic is very high-end, but I still get classified as streetwear. There's really no other reason for than other than my age, the way I look, and where I'm from.
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The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.
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Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.
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There are moments when I think, Everyone is evil!
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.
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It's just not an image I had ever put out about myself - the bedroom synth guy. The whole thing seemed ridiculous.
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I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my face told the world instead.
