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.'
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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.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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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.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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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.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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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.
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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?
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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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.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.
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I don't mind people writing about me. Personal attacks are different, but political arguments? I'm putting myself out there on a daily basis. I'm giving my opinion. So it only makes sense that others might differ and will criticize me.
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But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
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To be a successful Viner, you have to find your own style and be consistent. That will help you stand out from the rest.
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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
