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Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of…
— Tim Burton
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
— Luke Bryan
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Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to…
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Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the…
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The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
— Herb Alpert
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I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop
— Lil Wayne
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I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t,…
— Kanye West
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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's…
— Tom Petty
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You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most…
— Kristian Bush
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I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody,…
— John Legend
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With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking…
— Skip Horack
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A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
— Thurston Moore
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