Zadie Smith Quotes
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.
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I like having curves. Curves are in!
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Da quel puntodepende il cielo e tutta la natura.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
