Zadie Smith Quotes
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.Zadie Smith
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
Jaclyn Smith -
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
Larry Holmes -
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Zadie Smith -
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
Edgar Wright -
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Larry Wall -
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
Wade Davis -
The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
Garrett Graff -
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard -
I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
Jackie Cooper -
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
Rachel Johnson -
I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
J. J. Watt -
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie -
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Aaron Copland -
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
Damian Lewis
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I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
Mamata Banerjee -
You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.
David Bowie -
I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.
George Murray -
We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.
Dennis Brown -
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith