Zadie Smith Quotes
I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of, instead of hiding the structure and making it look organic and natural, we're going to put the structure on the outside. But most of the time, at least for me, all I could attend to [in Swing Time] was that act of structural self-consciousness.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
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I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of, instead of hiding the structure and making it look organic and natural, we're going to put the structure on the outside. But most of the time, at least for me, all I could attend to [in Swing Time] was that act of structural self-consciousness.
