Zadie Smith Quotes

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

Zadie Smith

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Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

Andrew Solomon

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Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

Andrew Eldritch

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Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

Mel Gibson

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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Stephen Hawking

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I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

Ronnie Dunn

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There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

Rush Limbaugh

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I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Dick Cavett

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Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.

Deborah Moggach

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I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

Christine McVie

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Our view is that Quark can make almost everything smart. We'll show you some things that you would never have thought could become smart and communicate.

Brian Krzanich

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When you're a kid, you always think about your parents, and I still do. I try to lead with the same example that they set.

Bret Hart

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Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation - including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators - are time-consuming and distracting.

Brett Kavanaugh

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