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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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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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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My first flight was in my early 20s, from New York City to Los Angeles, to shoot a Cherry 7-UP commercial.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
