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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...
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