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Zadie Smith Quotes

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: October 25, 1975

Topics

Achievement Confuse Honours

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

Great Speak Plan High Heels High

I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.

John Michael Higgins

Character You Gay Play Why Never

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

Together Sky Ocean Challenges Face

Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other?

Today Hate People Friends Why Talk

I'm a very musical person.

Mary Steenburgen

Person Very Musical

We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon's one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.

Business Advertising World Search

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

Good Great You Can Do It You Bad

I love dancing. It's one of my favorite things in the whole world.

Allison Williams

Love World Dancing Things Whole

Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to try new things.

Life Myself New Things People Door

My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 - she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn't want her to work, so she became a housewife.

Work Father Mother Confidence Art

I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?

Sheryl Lee Ralph

Education Future Believe Generation

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the court's own legitimacy and authority.

Power Struggle Think Political Will

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