Zadie Smith Quotes

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

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• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Want
  • Humanity

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Clothes

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • People
  • Never
  • Try

• I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Always
  • Childhood

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Opinion
  • Strength

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Never
  • Roots

• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Working

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• When I was in high school in England, I wasn't sure that you could have a career in fashion. In those days, there were very few fashion magazines. I didn't realize there was a school where you could go and learn how to make clothes and design. I thought you just had to be discovered somewhere, like a film.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different punk bands.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Music
  • Different
  • Important

• It's sad that people forget sometimes that there is a whole legitimate world of artists and actors out there that work their entire life, every day on perfecting their craft, but yet don't get any acknowledgement for their extraordinary commitment to their profession.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.

  

  Emily Robison
  • People

• He was a very good hater.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good

• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women