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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
DODIE SMITH

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
DODIE SMITH

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and hone...
DODIE SMITH

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
DODIE SMITH

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
DODIE SMITH

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts...
DODIE SMITH

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
DODIE SMITH

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
DODIE SMITH

I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; y...
DODIE SMITH

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book a...
DODIE SMITH

I really am just as discontented, but I don’t seem to notice it so much.
DODIE SMITH

So much of me longs to run after him and cry, 'Yes, yes, yes!' A few hours ago, when I wrote I could...
DODIE SMITH

I like seeing people when they can't see me.
DODIE SMITH

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
DODIE SMITH

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost heart...
DODIE SMITH

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump...
DODIE SMITH

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
DODIE SMITH

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
DODIE SMITH

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they j...
DODIE SMITH

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
DODIE SMITH

She was so scared that she forgot to be a contralto.
DODIE SMITH

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
DODIE SMITH

But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at th...
DODIE SMITH

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen...
DODIE SMITH

Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the b...
DODIE SMITH

Quand je lis un livre, j'y mets toute mon imagination, de sorte qu'en ce sens la lecture ressemble u...
DODIE SMITH

It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very q...
DODIE SMITH

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they ...
DODIE SMITH

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cat...
DODIE SMITH

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous gi...
DODIE SMITH

she is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and gl...
DODIE SMITH

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole i...
DODIE SMITH

...[I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shal...
DODIE SMITH

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
DODIE SMITH

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
DODIE SMITH

Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and...
DODIE SMITH

Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't...
DODIE SMITH

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.
DODIE SMITH

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a...
DODIE SMITH

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
DODIE SMITH

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather pri...
DODIE SMITH

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
DODIE SMITH

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
DODIE SMITH

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
DODIE SMITH

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
DODIE SMITH

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
DODIE SMITH

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that per...
DODIE SMITH

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside �...
DODIE SMITH

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
DODIE SMITH

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I...
DODIE SMITH

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
DODIE SMITH

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
DODIE SMITH

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I h...
DODIE SMITH

I believe it is customary to get get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personal...
DODIE SMITH

A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
DODIE SMITH It doesn't do any good to get angry. It's for a purpose of some kind. We're so much better off than ...
DODIE DAVIDSON When it was over, they were lying their helpless.
DODIE DAVIDSON We saw one piece fly off and then it all just went. Debris was going everywhere. I had never been th...
DODIE DAVIDSON My family is all coming in for a family reunion, including my 84-year-old mother. This is our family...
DODIE CURTIS

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my ...
EMMITT SMITH

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up i...
ZADIE SMITH

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH

When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH

I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH

Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH

The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organ...
ZADIE SMITH

Don't confuse honours with achievement.
ZADIE SMITH

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did,...
ZADIE SMITH

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
ZADIE SMITH

I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fonde...
ZADIE SMITH

There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu...
ZADIE SMITH

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everythin...
ZADIE SMITH

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautio...
ZADIE SMITH

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simpl...
ZADIE SMITH

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m...
ZADIE SMITH

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found ...
ZADIE SMITH

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of bein...
ZADIE SMITH

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong s...
ZADIE SMITH

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it....
ZADIE SMITH

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equa...
ZADIE SMITH

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist...
ZADIE SMITH

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ...
ZADIE SMITH

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
ZADIE SMITH

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
YEARDLEY SMITH

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
YEARDLEY SMITH

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
YEARDLEY SMITH

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sport...
YEARDLEY SMITH

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
YEARDLEY SMITH My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband...
TASHA SMITH I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist help...
TASHA SMITH I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who w...
TASHA SMITH We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being h...
TASHA SMITH Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't wan...
TASHA SMITH I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a...
TASHA SMITH Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work ...
TASHA SMITH When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great opti...
TASHA SMITH There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of ...
TASHA SMITH There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I c...
TASHA SMITH Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he&...
TASHA SMITH I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
TASHA SMITH I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... wor...
TASHA SMITH When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check whe...
TASHA SMITH I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go...
TASHA SMITH No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say wha...
TASHA SMITH I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got t...
TASHA SMITH Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be ev...
TASHA SMITH Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, ma...
TASHA SMITH Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new ...
TASHA SMITH There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afrai...
TASHA SMITH I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love an...
TASHA SMITH My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, wr...
TASHA SMITH I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they...
TASHA SMITH Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
SAMANTHA SMITH And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
SAMANTHA SMITH If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
SAMANTHA SMITH He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
SAMANTHA SMITH Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
SAMANTHA SMITH Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
SAMANTHA SMITH God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
SAMANTHA SMITH

The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a...
SAM SMITH

I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
SAM SMITH

Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it my...
SAM SMITH

I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys&...
SAM SMITH

Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.
SAM SMITH

I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a ...
SAM SMITH

I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
SAM SMITH

It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
SAM SMITH

As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
SAM SMITH

I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, an...
SAM SMITH

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained ...
SAM SMITH

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of do...
SAM SMITH

'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we&...
SAM SMITH

I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
SAM SMITH

Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-ni...
SAM SMITH

It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
SAM SMITH

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life...
SAM SMITH

I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to...
SAM SMITH

I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'T...
SAM SMITH

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so ...
SAM SMITH

My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and t...
SAM SMITH

I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
SAM SMITH

My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'...
SAM SMITH

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
LIZ SMITH

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
WILL SMITH The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ...
WALTER SMITH There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
WALTER SMITH From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ...
WALTER SMITH Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
WALTER SMITH I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent...
WALTER SMITH If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana...
WALTER SMITH Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I...
WALTER SMITH Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
WALTER SMITH

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be ...
JACLYN SMITH

I have had to learn about saying no.
JACLYN SMITH

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
JACLYN SMITH

I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
JACLYN SMITH

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a p...
JACLYN SMITH

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
JACLYN SMITH

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog...
JACLYN SMITH

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
JACLYN SMITH

Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still...
JACLYN SMITH

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.
JACLYN SMITH

I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my...
JACLYN SMITH

I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
JACLYN SMITH

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.
JACLYN SMITH

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help ke...
JACLYN SMITH

I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or...
JACLYN SMITH

When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so...
JACLYN SMITH

I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
JACLYN SMITH

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it th...
JACLYN SMITH

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.
JACLYN SMITH

I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just ...
JACLYN SMITH

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
JACLYN SMITH

I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I...
JACLYN SMITH

Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, ...
JACLYN SMITH

It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us....
JACLYN SMITH

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
JACLYN SMITH

I always try to be reasonable and effective.
IAN SMITH

Every human being makes mistakes.
IAN SMITH

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan...
IAN SMITH

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle...
IAN SMITH

You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You ca...
PATTI SMITH

I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as try...
WILL SMITH

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran...
WILBUR SMITH

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping...
WILL SMITH

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

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