Zadie Smith Quotes
Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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You don't have to answer someone's questions. That's just how I was raised.
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I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.'
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Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?
