Zadie Smith Quotes
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
