Zoë Heller (Zoë Kate Hinde Heller) Quotes
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.
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Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.
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X Out has helped me keep up my confidence, and I know it can help anyone who would rather have fun than worry about blemishes. If you want clear, seriously good-looking skin, X Out is for you.
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You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
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For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.
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I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.
