Sheila Heti Quotes
When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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There always have been funny women.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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I don't know where he Marc Chagall gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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Because his task was not finished, I felt that I must re-dedicate myself to the completion of his work.
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Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
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The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
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Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.
