Peter Heller Quotes

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

Peter Heller

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GreatBookCareYouEverythingUp

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

Jimmy Carter

ManBlackThinkAmericanPresident

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

John Lasseter

StupidThinkYouSomething

There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some, you remind them about mechanics, and some, you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you.

Johnny Bench

FriendTrustYouThreeTellWhere

Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.

Luise Rainer

PersonSheTakeLikeWantsDoes

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

PoliticsGovernmentDesertSandYou

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

Mindy Kaling

WorkCharacterRomanticMeHurtOut

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.

Jon Lester

GreatBestGameEndWorryYou

The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.

Christopher Buckley

HouseWhiteFirstMessOutMemoir

In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working initially as an editor and editing assistant - briefly - at WGBH, as an editor on other people's movies, trying to get some experience under my belt, but eventually just doing my own short films, doing them my way.

Brad Anderson

ExperiencePeopleShortDoingCareer

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

Bob Schaffer

PowerPrideNeverMoscowShouldLot

When I was in school, you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there's so many people of South Asian descent in America - in the world.

Priyanka Chopra

SchoolPeopleMeWorldWeirdYou

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

Sheila Heti

AlwaysEveryoneTellingStories

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