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Sheila Heti Quotes

Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Relationship Place Important Try Out

I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.

Jillian Michaels

Think You Gay Wrong Know Understand

I would be really happy to be working and be able to do my craft.

Melanie Griffith

Happy Craft Working Would Able

'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.

Memories Beginning Attention Look

The reason I fight is to provide for my family, and I cannot risk having that taken away.

Robert Whittaker

Family Fight Risk Reason Away Taken

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.

Bee Run Reaction Normal Check Grab

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

Love Anger Lot Discovered

I broke my wrist at summer camp playing a game called 'volleybat,' which was baseball but with a volleyball. It is as dangerous as it sounds.

Baseball Game Dangerous Summer Broke

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

Science Humor Best Reading Reach

You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

Positive Change Confidence Character

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Time Amazing You Say Vote Way

I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.

Pink Think Wear I Think Should

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

Think Started Wanting Five Actress

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