Zadie Smith Quotes

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Zadie Smith

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It's a controversial segment, 'Watters World.' There's controversy around it.

Jesse Watters

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There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.

Jesse Williams

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I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.

Andrew Stanton

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I like what's obscure.

Steven Klein

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I don't think it ever occurred to me that I wouldn't be an entrepreneur. My dad became a real estate developer, and that work is usually project-based. You attract investors for a project with a certain life cycle, and then you move on to the next thing. It's almost like being a serial entrepreneur, so I had that as an example.

Stewart Butterfield

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That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.

Trombone Shorty

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Ben Karlin is a friend of mine and was a writer on 'The Daily Show.' He's just put out a book and asked a bunch of writers from various disciplines to contribute. It was called 'Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me,' and of course I agreed, and then I actually had to sit down and write it. God, writing fiction is terrifying.

Tom McCarthy

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I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

Dominic Monaghan

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I want to be a strong voice, period.

Courtney A. Kemp

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I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Bonnie Raitt

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Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.

Philip Reeve

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

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