Heidi Julavits Quotes
I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
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So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.
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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
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National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.
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I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.
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An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule that you make when you are getting sunburned or when you eat a lot of food is part of the same molecule that contains an endorphin or an opiate. No one has ever had a hypothesis about why the two are together.
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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
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As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
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We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
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The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.
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I hate hearing from anyone ever saying, 'Oh, you only make clothes for models. That's so annoying,' because it just never, never is the case. Our top-selling size is probably a 12.
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The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.
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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
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I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.
