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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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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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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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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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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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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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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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
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'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.
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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
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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.
