Zadie Smith Quotes
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.
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I'll never forget my first Art Basel.
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We must scrunch or be scrunched.
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Fashion is not enough anymore. It's not just about what you wear. I mean, I don't know how many women can afford to take the time to come to Paris for three fittings.
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I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
