Zadie Smith Quotes
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Impulses are hard to come by these days.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
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People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.
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I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
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Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
