Sheila Heti Quotes

I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether, and my job is to find what that book is through my editing.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 25, 1976

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The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

Jim Hightower

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My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

Andrew Davies

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We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States.

Robert J. Bentley

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Pucci was always my favorite brand when I was in college. It has a similar DNA as my label, both in the sexy, uplifting point of view and in the use of color and surface pattern.

Matthew Williamson

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I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Jeff Bridges

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My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.

Merle Haggard

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The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

John Updike

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I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

Michael Jordan

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I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.

Brian Sandoval

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In a world of iPads and emails, nothing has really changed in the theatre. You still get in an hour early, do your wardrobe, put an old pair of tights under your wig, and you have, 'This is your call, Miss Jensen'. I got exhilarated by that.

Ashley Jensen

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I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!

Allison Janney

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