Zadie Smith Quotes
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.
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It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
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I think I forget every time - you give birth, and you want your stomach to be flat again. It does take a lot of work, but I usually start slowly by going on walks with the baby.
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I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
