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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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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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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Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.
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It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.
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I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.
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There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
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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.
