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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Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.
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As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
