Sheila Heti Quotes

Some of my favorite experiences of art are when I am there but my attention has wandered. I think stimulation is overrated, and persistent stimulation is exhausting. You sometimes have to be banal, tedious: make the rhythm go soft and slow, give the mind a rest.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

Andrew Haigh

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One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

John M. McHugh

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I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

Rob Delaney

TeacherWifeCrazySheEnglishWord

I never agreed with the message of the Catholic Church - and still don't to this day.

Ronnie James Dio

DayChurchNeverStillMessage

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

Ruth Reichl

CookingSimpleJobPeopleChefFeel

To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.

Michael Korda

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Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

Josh Homme

FunMeGuitarWayMakeShould

There's a million jokes about what's going on with Batman and Robin. It's a classic thing to call out the homoerotic nature of the men's adventure show.

Christopher McCulloch

NatureMenAdventureClassicJokes

My wife was pregnant while we were promoting 'Ant-Man,' and that was very exciting, to see, like, action figures of myself, as we're getting the nursery ready.

Corey Stoll

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Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

Aung San Suu Kyi

EconomicWeaponSanctionsReally

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.

Willie Geist

WorkWisdomJobBlueIdeasYou

How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!

William Godwin

ManSolitudeSocietyDifferentHow

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