Sheila Heti Quotes

I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing, it's just like whatever the next sentence should be is the next sentence. It's not this artificial division.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.

Anita Hill

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The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today's standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in 'barbarians' from the steppe.

Amy Chua

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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

Alvaro Enrigue

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Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

Robert B. Laughlin

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When I made the UFC, everyone said, 'You need to go overseas.' I thought I had to go as well, and I went to Tristar Gym, and I was there for one or two years. But changes were needed. I'd come off back-to-back losses - Court McGee and Stephen Thompson - and I needed to look at my roots and go back to the drawing board.

Robert Whittaker

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A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

Russell Hornsby

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You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Colin Quinn

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Coming from the theatre, I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns, and I get to be a princess or someone from the 1920s, or I get to wear showgirl costumes. I'm used to wearing a wardrobe that changes how I feel. It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often, the clothing can reveal so much about a character.

Sutton Foster

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There is life after acting.

Suzanne Crough

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I'm very passionate about making good films. I want to make good films for the whole world because I think it is one of the biggest inspirations for society.

Shaheer Sheikh

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Easy answers are never really useful ones, so hopefully we're not trying to peddle easy answers.

Mark Frost

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I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?

Jami Attenberg

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