Zoë Heller (Zoë Kate Hinde Heller) Quotes
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
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To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.
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India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.
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Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am - trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature - then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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I go - as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.
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There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
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I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.'
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I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
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Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.
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Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.
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When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.
