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.Zadie Smith
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Damien Hirst -
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
Karl Lagerfeld -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
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.
Oliver Stone -
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
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.
Edmund Phelps
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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.
Uri Geller -
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
Rachael Taylor -
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
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.
Pankaj Patel -
Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
Caitlin Moran -
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.
Samantha Shannon
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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!
Adam Peaty -
I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
Kapil Sibal -
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
Hallie Ephron -
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.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
Pat Robertson -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince
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The first movie I produced was a movie that Joel Schumacher wrote and directed called 'Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill.'
Lauren Shuler Donner -
I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
Young Thug -
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
Jim DeMint -
I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.
Nicola Sturgeon -
I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
Adam Clayton U2 -
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.
Zadie Smith