Zadie Smith Quotes
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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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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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.
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Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.
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I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.
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I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
