Zadie Smith Quotes
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
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Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
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Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
