Zadie Smith Quotes

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

Zadie Smith

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Disney represents the future of filmmaking in North America.

Joe Russo

FutureAmericaFilmmakingDisney

So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Joel Osteen

LifePeopleLookingYouLookWrong

Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.

Andrew Yang

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Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

John Niven

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If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

Jeff Conaway

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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Stephen Covey

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We are all scrutinised. Everyone. Man, woman, everyone, especially if you are in the public eye in any way on social media. It's about doing you and not worrying too much about other things. Only worry about the things that are really worth worrying about.

Stella Maxwell

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If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors.

Juan Williams

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Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.

Donald Sinden

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I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

Chet Faker

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Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

Claire McCaskill

Common SenseCountryMeanRightOwn

When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

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