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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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 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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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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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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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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It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.
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People used to call me names, so my mom had this beautiful African lady come talk to me.
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Our goal is not to be the biggest. Our goal is to be the best. That is why the aspiration that I have picked is to be the undisputed leader in professional services, and I'm starting with intangible metrics.
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Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
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Those who know me would say I'm a passionate and hard-working mom and a community leader who knows how to get things done.
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Unlike public universities and private, not-for-profit colleges, for-profit schools are owned by revenue-seeking businesses often more intent on boosting their bottom line than educating their students. They use hard-sell tactics to recruit prospective students, and veterans have become particular targets.
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I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.
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He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
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The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe.
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I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.
