Zadie Smith Quotes
Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
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And we're always excited to expose our music to new people to see if we can have longevity and a long career. It's heading that way.
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You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.