Zadie Smith Quotes
Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
Quotes to Explore
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I'm always going to have to manage my mental health issues.
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One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.
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I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.
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Now he was far from bored but feeling many of the same stresses that had caused him to retire from active duty in the first place. Was it possible to find a station in life with just the right level of interest? Was it possible to be normal without being someone’s dupe?
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To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.
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Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
