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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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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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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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 have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
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Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
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An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, 'Iraq After America,' which is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how Iraq descended into chaos in the years after the American troop withdrawal at the end of 2011.
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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.
