Sheila Heti Quotes

I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you're doing it right, as opposed to writing a play and then waiting around for somebody else to complete it.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkArtWaitingWritingThinkYou

A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.

Joel Edgerton

EyesYouPersonLostKnowSay

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

Jenifer Lewis

WaterGovernmentDriveGeneration

The Bible is referred to in scripture as the sword of the spirit.

Andy Mineo

BibleSwordSpiritScripture

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

CommunicationDaySocietyReality

My life is pretty much an open book.

Jeff Conaway

LifeBookMy LifeOpenPrettyMuch

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

Amy Cuddy

PracticeSmilingTeethPencilYour

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Stephen Sondheim

WrittenMusicalRewrittenComedies

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

Ronda Rousey

FearCourageTimePeopleMeYou

If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.

Roy H. Williams

EnoughYouCheapWorriedToo

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

Rudolf Hilferding

ValueFindProductionExpression

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Michael Schumacher

CarMomentYearPerfectNeverOut

Country's opened its boundaries so wide that it embraces everything, and it gives everybody this new freedom to create now.

Jay DeMarcus

FreedomCountryCreateNewNowWide

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