Zadie Smith
Related I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel an... JENNIFER KONNER When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be l... BEN SAVAGE Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH CLINT EASTWOOD CANDACE BUSHNELL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just w... SHARON DRAPER I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for '... BEN DANIELS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then ... SCOTT THOMPSON EUGENE IONESCO KYLE CHANDLER JENNIFER LAWRENCE JUDITH JAMISON CHARLIE ROWE For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I&#... KATE GRENVILLE I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of th... MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly... CHRIS LILLEY ELLEN DEGENERES I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX VACLAV HAVEL I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-... JANE LINDSKOLD DON MCLEAN WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who ... PAUL FEIG DYLAN MORAN PRIYANKA CHOPRA Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of p... CHRIS PAVONE Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also wri... HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS DAVID BERGEN ADAM DRIVER I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She ju... TATE TAYLOR When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's s... BILL SKARSGARD KATY PERRY It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hem... PAULA MCLAIN The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of ... SYDNEY WAYSER KATEE SACKHOFF MICHELLE DOCKERY I'd been going up for things, but I hadn't got anything, and then 'Anne Frank' came ... ELLIE KENDRICK I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who di... SAMI GAYLE When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned t... BETSY BRANDT For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. An... KATE MICUCCI VIKRAM SETH I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when ... TODD PHILLIPS ZACH GALIFIANAKIS I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was... SKYLAR GREY WILBUR SMITH ARTHUR SMITH JACK VANCE When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus ... CHANDRA WEST When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophica... BARRY MCGUIRE I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while. SAUL LEITER There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plan... PETER FACINELLI I was the girl who did everybody's homework, but I was also, like, student council president and... MAYSOON ZAYID I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the musi... RAEKWON My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I... HIAM ABBASS KELSEA BALLERINI ALEXANDRA PETRI CARL HIAASEN I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is comple... FLUME I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to ... BILLY BOYD BEYONCE KNOWLES CHUCK PALAHNIUK JIMMY FALLON I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I ... SABRINA CARPENTER I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like W... LAURA ESQUIVEL My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had... GEMMA ARTERTON AARON SORKIN I had just left 'Saturday Night Live' when I came to 'The Daily Show,' and it just f... ROB RIGGLE G-EAZY I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ... JACK WHITEHALL I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and wri... TOM FELTON After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I gu... WHITNEY CUMMINGS TIM CAHILL MIKE BIRBIGLIA LUKE EVANS CLINT EASTWOOD I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, b... ABBEY CLANCY As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was l... CLIFF BURTON Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself... PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO JARED LETO
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'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'Th... 
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit... 
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class... 
I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you ... 
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I w... 
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L... 
When I was eight years old, I asked my mum, 'Mum, can I do two jobs?' And she was like, '... 
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always... 
I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people... 
Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality i... 
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I'm not even Indian-American: I'm Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a n... 
A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher. 
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I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I... 
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For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie m... 
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me... 
I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wi... 
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn... 
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j... 
I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ra... 
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid. 
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People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they&#... 
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like ... 
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You can cry, ain't no shame in it. 
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher. 
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