Zadie Smith Quotes

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

Zadie Smith

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You need a nutritional love diet. Don't put the junk stuff in your body - it's not going to do you any good.

Joanna Coles

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In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce.

Joel Robuchon

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When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

Andrew Davies

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I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

Mel Gibson

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I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.

Michael Cerveris

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Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Ronald Reagan

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Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

Roy Ayers

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People think that every day we pass monumental legislation. Oftentimes, the most important thing that you have done that day is help a family with a visa.

Lisa Murkowski

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No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

Jonathan Ames

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One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.

Donna Mills

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As a kid, I was always inspired by the comedy of Carol Burnett. I loved Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon's 'Mama's Family'.

Del Shores

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When I'm under stress, I do yoga. It's when I'm happiest that I have a problem with junk food.

Britney Spears

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