Zadie Smith Quotes

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith

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I wouldn't do go to another band.

John Deacon

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Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Andre Braugher

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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

Robert Smithson

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I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

Anita Pallenberg

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The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Michael Foreman

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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

Robert E. Howard

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Authenticity is really important, and sometimes that's really hard to get.

Tom Freston

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Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.

Monica Johnson

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You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Monica Seles

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If you're in front of a Ring of Honor crowd and you suck, they'll let you know.

Cody Rhodes

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Every time someone told me I couldn't, I did. I'm still the same guy who's responsible for one of the better Intercontinental runs of all time and changing that title.

Cody Rhodes

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I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Marilyn Hacker

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