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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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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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 wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
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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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When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.
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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 can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.
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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
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It feels good, it's much easier to work with and you use less shampoo.
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I don't think our players will worry if Australia are being arrogant. If they are cocky, that's their problem, not ours.
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I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.
