"She did what girls generally do when they……" — Zadie Smith
"She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead."
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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 Dressed Quotes
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
— William Henry Ashley
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For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
— Alec Baldwin
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I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every…
— Ellen Barkin
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my…
— Manolo Blahnik
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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of…
— Sandra Bullock
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I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in…
— Candace Cameron
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To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater…
— Sholom Aleichem
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I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me…
— Charlie Chaplin
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple…
— Tracy Chapman
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I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.
— Cher
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