Zadie Smith Quotes
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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New York is my home.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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I'm trying my best.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.
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I never said half the things I said.
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
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There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be - which is not just a helper and fun parent, but actually a partner - are beginning to feel more work-life conflict than mothers are. They're trying to do what women have been doing for 30 years, and they're having a very stressful time of it - a harder time at work because we still expect men to be on 24-7, working 40 years straight.
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We took our eye off the ball as a company.
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Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
