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.

Heidi Julavits

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• Person's identity

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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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  • Singing
  • Dreams

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Kids
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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.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

  

  Ovid
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  • Hour
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• You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Together
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  • Win

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Dark
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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.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Family
  • Home
  • Want

• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Better

• You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Know
  • Fans

• 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.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • School
  • Done
  • Sports

• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Write
  • First

• 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
  • Life
  • Know
  • Race

• Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Real
  • Imagination
  • Thoughts

• I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Better

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative

• The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

  

  Origen
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  • Power
  • Evil

• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Believe
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• The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

  

  Abraham Kaplan
  • Training
  • Learn
  • Price

• You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Perfect
  • Movies
  • Look

• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Hope
  • Memory
  • Evidence

• We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Teacher
  • Role
  • Obama

• 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.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Memory
  • Role
  • Person's identity