"... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate……" — Zadie Smith
"... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt."
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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site.
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
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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…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
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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…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
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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…
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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…
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More Belly Quotes
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
— Pietro Aretino
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
— Francis Bacon
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
— Kevin Bacon
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
— Theodor Adorno
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Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the…
— Elayne Boosler
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What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies…
— Anthony Bourdain
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People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly…
— Sandra Bullock
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I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and…
— Margaret Cho
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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
— Ty Cobb
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There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for…
— Hilary Duff
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