Heidi Julavits Quotes
I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.
Gail Devers -
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually.
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It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
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It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
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All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances, spring narratives… The photograph… is only the most peremptory of a huge modern accumulation of documentary evidence… which simultaneously records a certain apparent continuity and emphasizes its loss from memory. Out of this estrangement comes a conception of personhood, identity… which, because it cannot be “remembered”, must be narrated.
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I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.
