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Zadie Smith Quotes

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Growing Up Loved My Life Up

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Me Professional Duty Get Come Press

Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.

Women Adversity Character Service

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

Change Capitalism Thought Transition

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

Saying Said Washington Coming Handle

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

Rules NCAA Own Establish Enforce

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

Girl Being Valley Idea Hated Even

I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.

Children Plants World Survive Trees

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

Voice Perfect Play Sound Human High

I want to fight all the toughest guys in the world. I'm not trying to duck anybody or scared of anybody. I want to fight everybody.

Fight World Duck Trying Want Scared

Every morning, when I'm really, really tired... when I'm dead tired is when I feel most alive.

Morning Tired Feel Alive Dead Most

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Happy Rich Wealth Country Nothing

I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

Annabelle Selldorf

Simple Look Nice Never Things Like

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