Sheila Heti Quotes

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

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• The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

  

  Yves Behar
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• I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

  

  Lana Parrilla
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• I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'

  

  Dan Colen
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• I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  

  Dan Rather
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• When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
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• Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

  

  Jack Germond
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• In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.

  

  Floriana Lima
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• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  

  Mae West
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• They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

  

  C. Everett Koop
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• I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

  

  Illeana Douglas
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• The daring nature of Ford’s method is revealed when one realizes that a direct consequence of limiting the space is that when the allotted space is full, the workers feeding it must stop producing. Therefore, in order to achieve flow, Ford had to abolish local efficiencies. In other words, flow lines are flying in the face of conventional wisdom; the convention that, to be effective, every worker and every work center have to be busy 100% of the time.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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• Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

  

  Tim Robbins
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• It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

  

  Sheila Heti
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