Zadie Smith Quotes
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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We work together. No one is more important than the other. We are all Zimbabweans. We want to grow our economy. We want peace in our country.
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Would we rear the human plant to its perfection, we must fertilize the soil which produces it.
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Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.