Sheila Heti Quotes

The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TalentWritingStartWorryYouSee

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Jimmy Carter

GodServiceConflictPublic Service

I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.

Michael Hayden

PeopleFreePushSecurityLiberty

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

Stephen Gaghan

LiveChildrenPathParentsMeMom

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

Stephen Stills

LoveYou

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

Steve Carell

CharacterEffortInterestingYou

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

FailureForgetPrinciplesObjectives

I always like to keep myself moving.

Jonathan Lipnicki

MyselfMovingAlwaysKeepLike

I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

Cliff Richard

PeopleMeChurchGroupPrayWho

It's easy if you're Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks.

Phil Gingrey

StandEasyYouBackSometimesRush

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

Nuno Bettencourt

MeKnowWriteHardLikeSounds

Even though my family was accepting of an unusual career, cinema, my journey in it has still been a tough one.

Nithya Menen

FamilyJourneyToughCareerCinema

I am very worried about politicians who know that their countries are greatly benefiting financially and at the same time are saying that the European Union is not good for us. The message has to be coherent.

Kersti Kaljulaid

GoodTimeI AmSayingKnowSame

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