Zadie Smith Quotes
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
Quotes to Explore
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
