Zadie Smith Quotes
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.Zadie Smith
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid -
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
Aasif Mandvi -
I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
Francine Pascal -
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
A. N. Wilson -
One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
Camila Alves
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
Sally Hawkins -
I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
Mamata Banerjee -
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
Gail Sheehy -
I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
Haley Joel Osment -
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler -
Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
J. D. Vance -
I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
Magnus Larsson -
Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
Edgar Ramirez -
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
D. J. MacHale -
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. Howe -
The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
Warren Farrell -
The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.
Haruki Murakami -
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith