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 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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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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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.
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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.
