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.
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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.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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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.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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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.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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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.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.
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An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary.
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We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.
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There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
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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.
