Zadie Smith Quotes
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I really love storytelling.
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
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I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
