Sheila Heti Quotes

In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

Jim Mattis

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I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

Mekhi Phifer

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I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used.

Amy Chozick

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Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.

Robert Atkins

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I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

Rudy Giuliani

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I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

Mary J. Blige

WisdomYouPersonKnowWantAfraid

I was born to score goals, I feel.

Michael Owen

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I think it's our job as writers for Marvel Comics to continue to create those type of stories that can be mined instead of just trying to give readers exactly what they see on film.

Jason Aaron

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I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.

Jason Robert Brown

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Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Doris Lessing

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