Sheila Heti Quotes
I hadn't realized until this week that in Moses' youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I like to travel by myself.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.
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Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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I hadn't realized until this week that in Moses' youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.
