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Something Quotes by Zadie Smith
- You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A…
- English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
- Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
- Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you…
- The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance…
- We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
- When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have…
- A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash…
- Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East…
- For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
- We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen