Zadie Smith Quotes

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

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• The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Leftwing

• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Imagination

• I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Myself

• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Singing
  • Doing
  • Boring

• I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.

  

  Xochi Birch
  • Life
  • Job
  • Achievement

• I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Great
  • Country
  • Stand

• The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Real
  • Sex
  • Story

• I just think people should be able to express themselves.

  

  Vince Carter
  • People
  • Think
  • Express

• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Superior

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Child
  • Wanted
  • Surgeon

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Want

• When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Nice

• When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Different
  • Night
  • Girlfriend

• You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

  

  Marilyn Horne
  • Career
  • Star

• There are times we don't want to hear about the need to temper our best hopes in order to achieve our most vital security. But we still need to do it. Before we can triumph, we must survive. Before liberty can prevail, the possibility of liberty must be preserved.

  

  Alan Keyes

• Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

  

  Anthony Wayne
  • Storm

• In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Chinese
  • Descibe

• But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Future
  • Past
  • Perfect