Sheila Heti Quotes

I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the way people can misunderstand or misinterpret things, if not maliciously, then without a lot of sensitivity.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.

Joe Bastianich

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If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Max von Sydow

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I like to have my privacy. I don't like people knowing what I do in my free time. I am also a very shy person, but I understand that people want to know more.

Ana Ivanovic

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I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers asked me and saying you want to be an actor sounds a little bit silly. And I do still feel a bit silly saying it. You feel a bit fraudulent.

Sophie Thompson

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You need to be grounded internally and excited about the world around you. If I were out of touch, it would be hard for me to know why Michael Cera is so cool.

Stacey Snider

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I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

Lizzy Caplan

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Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

Josh McDowell

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Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

David Shields

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I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Clay Aiken

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Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Arne Glimcher

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I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

Pope Francis

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