Zadie Smith Quotes
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
-
Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
-
Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
-
Good comedy is ageless.
-
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
-
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
-
I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
-
I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
-
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
-
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
-
I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
-
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
-
I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
-
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.
-
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
-
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
-
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
-
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
-
I love working in New York.
-
A lot of people have said I'm the anti-Kim Kardashian and I'm all right with that.
-
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
-
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
-
Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.
-
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
