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.Zadie Smith
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
Ted McGinley -
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
Laetitia Casta -
Impulses are hard to come by these days.
Jack Levine -
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman -
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.
Gail Collins
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
Natalie Portman -
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson -
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.
Sadie Frost -
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett -
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
Abagail Johnson
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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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
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.
Olivia Newton-John -
Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
Rachel McAdams -
If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.
Ian Bogost
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I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.
Dan Aykroyd -
I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
Karolyn Grimes -
I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
Jack McBrayer -
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.
Zadie Smith