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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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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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
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To be honest, I'm in love with denim. It hasn't been my go-to Lion Babe look, but it's very much my 'everyday Jillian look.' I am in denim every single day.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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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.
