Zadie Smith Quotes

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

Zadie Smith

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I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

Jeremy Piven

DoingPlayChicagoWayMoreNever

Going to Santa Fe is like going to Greece. It's not that special compared to other areas. The pinon pines are no different than pinon pines elsewhere. But there has been culture there longer than in most places, and you feel it.

Robert Redford

CultureFeelYouSpecialPlaces

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

Maurizio Cattelan

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Time travel is such a magic concept.

Matt Smith

TimeTravelMagicTime Travel

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LifeSuccessGoodTimePeopleLong

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

MeThinkThinkingThoughtStopWhy

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

Meryl Davis

BestYourselfBetterTryingYou

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

Robert Dallek

PathDepressionWarWashington

I love tube socks!

Miley Cyrus

LoveSocksI LoveTube

When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.

Joseph Mazzello

WayDirectorProducerOld-Fashioned

I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.

Demi Moore

GoodFocusMakeupCareYouSkin

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

David Souter

TimeMomentDeathMedicalStronger

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