Zadie Smith Quotes
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.Zadie Smith
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Ulrich Beck -
I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
Natalie Maines -
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
Barry Ritholtz -
If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
Sam Waterston -
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas -
My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.
Yahya Jammeh
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
Patrick Ness -
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
Caitlin Flanagan -
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Lajos Kossuth -
So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
Olympia Dukakis -
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e. e. cummings -
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
Barbara Kopple
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
Camille Paglia -
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis -
If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.
Viktor Orban -
That’s what being human means: to be master of your own fate.
Karl Schroeder -
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
Barry Humphries -
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes.
Edgar Lee Masters
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Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.
P. G. Wodehouse -
'Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.' - Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions
Pat Robertson -
My dad died when I was 15 and worked way too much.
Billy Crystal -
I am the original 'Material Girl.'
Eartha Kitt -
The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.
Christa McAuliffe -
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
Zadie Smith