Zadie Smith Quotes

I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

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• Love is a beautiful feeling.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Easy

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Feeling

• I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Believe
  • Interesting
  • Easy

• I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Time
  • Job
  • Remember

• I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Away

• I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Feeling
  • Lost
  • Period

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Tough

• Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Look
  • Easy
  • Hard

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• I don't have many easy songs.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Songs
  • Many

• I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • May
  • Future

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• He sat and watched them come and he thought of going in to get a rifle, but he didn’t stir from his seat upon the steps. The rifle would do no good, he told himself. It would be a senseless thing to get it; more than that, a senseless attitude. The least that man could do, he thought, was to meet these creatures of another world with clean and empty hands.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • World
  • Good
  • Attitude

• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  

  Nora Roberts
  • Want
  • Step
  • Ask

• I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Feeling
  • Easy
  • Ride