Zadie Smith Quotes
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.
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The will of the people is the best law.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
