Zadie Smith Quotes

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

Zadie Smith

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I don't think my body's gonna go to hell if I train for performance. It might change a little and adapt, but I like being strong.

John Cena

ChangePerformanceStrongThinkHell

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

Ann Leckie

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My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creative times. I mean, there's no writer's block allowed in a newsroom.

Michael Connelly

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With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.

Sterling K. Brown

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I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

Topher Grace

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Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped me find a future in which I, such a mongrel, could be comfortable.

Mohsin Hamid

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People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.

Mitt Romney

PeopleInsuranceWantType

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

Dennis Miller

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I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

Chris Isaak

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I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

Chris Lilley

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It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby minimising socioeconomic costs as well.

Arancha Gonzalez

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According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them.

Alice Dreger

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