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.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Change

• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• 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?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Patterns

• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Creator

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Faith
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Sweet

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Best
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Design
  • Inspired
  • Difference

• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Chance

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Family
  • Win
  • Sister

• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Powerful

• The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

  

  Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Learn

• Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.

  

  William of Occam
  • Reason
  • Should

• I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It was the idea that people could talk, reason, have dialogue, discuss the issues. It wasn't founded on the idea that someone would get struck by a divine inspiration and know everything right from wrong. I mean, people who founded this country had religion, they had strong beliefs, but they believed in reason, in dialogue, in civil discourse. We can't lose that in this country. We've got to get it back.

  

  Wesley Clark
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Quality
  • Should
  • Persons

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

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Should
  • Skins
  • Infection