Sheila Heti Quotes
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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I didn't believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, 'How can a young person like me get cancer?' I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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I'm not really a femme fatale.
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If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
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I am a horsewoman. I am a princess. I am Zsa Zsa.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!
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My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to clean up my mind with a style that was slick and glossy, aspirational and wrapped in fantasy. That's still largely how I approach my fashion work. More recently it's pulled me back, particularly since Katrina, and as I get older and lose some of that shame that's inherited with poverty.
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It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.
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I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.
