Ali Smith Quotes

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

Ali Smith

Path

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The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.

Zac Goldsmith
- Live
- Path
- Broken
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

Kate Atkinson
- Life
- Writing
- Lost
I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

Kat Dennings
- Like
- Need
- Hours
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

Idris Elba
- Up
- Law
- Years
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

Gayle Forman
- Up
- Writing
- Book
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Omar Bongo
- Power
- Free
- Humanity