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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When kids would say 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' I thought they were talking to someone behind me. I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel.
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I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.
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The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
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Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.
