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 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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I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.
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If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.
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A lot of designers, they did tell me no. They didn't really wanna work with me.
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I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.
