Zadie Smith Quotes
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.Zadie Smith
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
Oliver Tambo -
It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
Ian Rush -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
Natalie Dormer -
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
Pankaj Mishra
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Barry O'Farrell -
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
Aaron Schock -
Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
Sam Kean -
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
Tamora Pierce -
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini -
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
Veerappa Moily -
Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
Carlos Slim -
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides -
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Irvine Welsh -
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin
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If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.
Aaron Patzer -
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
Lauren Tarshis -
Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.
Rachael Ray -
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
Zadie Smith