Zadie Smith Quotes
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
Quotes to Explore
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
