Zadie Smith Quotes

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

Zadie Smith

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If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

John Bercow

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When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to go up to Ayrshire and visit relations in a place called Dalry.

Jennifer Saunders

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When I'm 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain's daughter, and I'm so proud of him and proud of my family's legacy and our life, so I don't have a problem with it.

Meghan McCain

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The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.

Robert Reich

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I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Michael Ealy

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Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

Stephen Kinzer

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To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.

Sue Wicks

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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.

Tom Shales

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National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the decisions we make, the roads we decide to take at certain points in our life.

Miguel Zenon

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Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

Monica Johnson

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As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives.

Moby

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I am dying, but the state remains.

Louis XIV

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