Zadie Smith Quotes

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

Zadie Smith

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It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

Jhonen Vasquez

WorkPeopleCoolAudienceLike

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

Michael Berryman

ReligionOpinionBetterProblemYou

There are 300 neutrinos in every cubic centimeter of the entire universe.

Stanley Wojcicki

UniverseEveryEntire

Liverpool is off the side of the known universe, and it always was. New York is the only other place comparable.

Simon Rattle

New YorkUniversePlaceNewAlways

I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?'

Tracy K. Smith

PeopleMeSpeakYouGoWant

I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.

Michelle Trachtenberg

LoveGirlDayI AmThinkYou

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

Miroslav Volf

EveryonePromisePossibilityContains

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

Jason Giambi

KnowSwingNeedCageWhereGoing

I'm just worried about what I'm doing. Case has played well, and Case is doing a great job. But at the same time, I'm not going to concern myself with him.

Jared Goff

GreatTimeMyselfJobDoingHim

The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller.

Jonathan Dee

CharacterMeHurtMotionSetPlot

I don't think we should always look at the Chinese like they're taking jobs. They are also bring us more and more jobs. Because, they are the biggest growing consumer. I think what is going on in China is exciting.

Diane von Furstenberg

ThinkLookGrowingMoreBringChina

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

William Winwood Reade

SuccessBeautifulReligionPhilosophy

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