Zadie Smith Quotes
I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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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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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
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My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
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When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
