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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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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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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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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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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The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have those spikes in insulin that occur when you eat large meals.
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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
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I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
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I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
