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Sheila Heti Quotes

Everyone has to put clothes on in the morning, and it's interesting to see how much people's personal histories come into that decision.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Morning Decision People Interesting

I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Life Peace Sun You Know Get

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

Time Job Past Writing Beyond Never

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

Michael Imperioli

Busy Guitar Three Actor Band Years

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

America Veterans More Years Than

I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.

Ideas You Down Lost Forget Want

I've always been a fan of comedy. I've always enjoyed it. It's something I'm very passionate about; it's like lifeblood to me. I had to pursue it. I thought I had a little bit of talent, and if I could make a living at it, I would do it. It's worked out so far.

Talent Me Thought Comedy Living Out

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

Martin Van Creveld

Fight War People End True Up

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

Fear Passion Contagious

I live my life as healthy and consciously as I can.

Life Live My Life I Can Healthy

I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.

Josephine de La Baume

Girl New York City Fashion Think

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Beauty King Size Everything Like

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Which Them Affairs Slowness

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