Zadie Smith Quotes
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.
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A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.
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The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.
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There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
