Heidi Julavits Quotes
I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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Make Up For Ever has foundation options that work for me - and everyone.
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I was on a plane, and the steward was coming down the aisle. 'Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...' And he gets to me and he's like, '...chicken salad!' What does he think I'm gonna do? 'Dis is not de salad of my people! In my homeland, dey use mandarin orange slices...and crispy wonton crunches!'
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.
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Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.
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I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.
