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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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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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.
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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
