Zoë Heller (Zoë Kate Hinde Heller) Quotes
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
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I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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I overcame size with mechanics.
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I'm just excited to watch my kids grow up.
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I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.
