Sheila Heti Quotes
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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There are three kinds of people-the living, the dead, and those at sea.
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The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.
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I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
