Zadie Smith Quotes

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

Zadie Smith

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You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

Joe Biden

WorkDepressionYouKnowSayOut

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

TogetherReligionEndChristianWill

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.

Jens Lekman

PeopleMeSongMoreWriteRelease

I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him.

John Lithgow

GreatFightFunEnoughYouActor

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

Michael Clarke Duncan

SmileFaceWorryYouPersonAlways

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.

John Prescott

HomeOpportunityMeGoSaidWay

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

MoneyBlackIndiaNewsOddChannels

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

Louise Nurding

WomenAgeMeWrinklesLookKnow

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Christiane Amanpour

PastWarTen YearsYearsJustZone

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

Claire Denis

MarchAfricaPoorMoreContinent

Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.

Brian Fallon

HomeLiveYearNewSometimesLondon

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

Sherri Shepherd

DayYourselfPotentialSomeoneYou

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