Jeff Giles Quotes
'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.
Jeff Giles
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
Larry Brilliant
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley
I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
Kate Hudson
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
Edmund Phelps
The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
Edmund Morgan
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
Walter Chrysler
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
Kat Dennings
I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis
I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
Gale Harold
I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
Larry Wilmore
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
Karl Lagerfeld
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.
Lionel Shriver
I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.
Jennifer Gilmore
Sometimes females feel like they should act like men, but they should really just be themselves.
Payal Kadakia
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden
'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.
Jeff Giles
