Zadie Smith Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
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The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.
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It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.
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TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
