Julia Sweeney Quotes

#1. Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

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#2. It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

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#3. I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.

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#4. Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

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#5. I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

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#6. I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

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#7. Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

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#8. To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

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#9. I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

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#10. I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

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#11. If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

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#12. I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

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#13. Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?

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#14. I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

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#15. Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.

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#16. It's so weird to have someone tell you you're sick when you feel really healthy and good.

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#17. Sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

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#18. I like going back and writing fiction.

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#19. I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.

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#20. Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

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#21. You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like, I definitely turned to it in times of trouble.

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#22. I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

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#23. [Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood.

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#24. Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

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#25. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

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