Zadie Smith Quotes

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

Zadie Smith

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• I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • City
  • Air
  • Sun

• As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Know
  • Blessed

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Value
  • Logic
  • Evidence

• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Human
  • Conservative

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Job
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• I can't touch Simon anymore.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Touch
  • Anymore
  • Simon

• Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

  

  Ben Hogan

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Good
  • Work

• I object to several popular ideas. I don't think anyone's work is reductive. The most the term can mean is that new work doesn't have what the old work had. Its not so definitive that a certain kind of form is missing; a description and discussion of the kind present is pretty definitive.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Present

• We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• The relationship to the director is becoming more crucial to me, making sure there are some common goals. I haven't been in the kind of position where my roles have been chosen for me, where someone says, "First we'll do this and then we'll do this," and it's all part of some master plan.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Relationship
  • Goals
  • Director

• It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Made