Zadie Smith Quotes
I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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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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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
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What may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don't stand up for it, then who will?
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If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
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I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.
