Sheila Heti Quotes

I don't really have a schedule; I just get up in the morning. I work at home. I don't feel that my work is a separate thing from living - I get ideas about what I want to write about from the real things that I'm worrying about as I live.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

Jessica Lange

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Personally, it was hard to see Emmitt in red.

Jerry Jones

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When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

Robert Krulwich

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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

John Webster

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There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.

Amy Ryan

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The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Steven Pinker

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I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

Mike Gordon

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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Jon Corzine

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Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.

DeRay Mckesson

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The United Nations has no business in our elections.

David Vitter

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I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

Brendan Coyle

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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

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