Zadie Smith Quotes
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
Zadie Smith
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
Lady Gaga
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
Taylor Kinney
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
Dan Brown
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There are a few sections of uncut timber, luckily state-owned.
Aldo Leopold
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As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
Mark Shields
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I wanted to do plays. But then I got out of school and started getting jobs in movies and TV. And I seemed more suited to that. I like the intimacy of working for the camera, the size of performance it requires. I love getting into tiny moments.
Elizabeth Reaser
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Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
Gene Luen Yang
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
Zadie Smith
