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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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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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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What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.
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Now, bitter, but useful, mortification is the steppingstone to knowledge, even in a child.
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I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.
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The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me.
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My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
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Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun.
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I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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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.
