Zadie Smith Quotes
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm not a leading man.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I know. And that's what took me so long.
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
