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“When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.”

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is a British novelist known for her distinctive literary style and profound social insights. Her works cover a range of themes including race, class, gender, and identity, and have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are kind of at the sharp end of capitalism one way or another. Mainly because they buy everything. In a practical sense, women buy most things. They're always comparing - to friends, to famous people, to other people. An obsessive act of comparison.”

People Way Kind Ends Seems Theory Capitalism Practicals One Way Compare Pet Comparison Obsessive

Author:Zadie Smith

“A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.”

People Feels Different America Young Choices Easy Harder Very Good Complicated Founders Good Friend Life Choices Different Life Very Good Friends

Author:Zadie Smith

“The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Life Is Break Example Attractive Intimate Irrelevant Arena Attractive Man

Author:Zadie Smith

“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.”

Thinking Men Different States Problem Seems Able Differences Mistake College He Man Brother My Brother Sameness

Author:Zadie Smith

“The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me.”

Jobs America

Author:Michelle Obama

“Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.”

Play Able Film Actors Team

Author:Idris Elba

“Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.”

Knows Used Actors Know How One Thing Performances Scripts Edits

Author:Idris Elba

Want Actors Known Audience Surprise Great Work

Author:Idris Elba

“If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.”

Ifs Self Kids Values Stuff Moral Teach Teacher Self Control Curriculum

Author:Tony Danza

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