"Don't confuse honours with achievement."

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Source : "Zadie Smith's rules for writers" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

Zadie Smith

#Achievement Quotes #Honour Quotes

“I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.”
“I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.”
“I went right to Chicago to do improv [after law school], but I wish I had gone, "Let me just bypass this law thing." I mean, sure, it helps you read a contract, but I can read a contract regardless. It's just common sense, contracts.”
“The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2001). “Niagara Falls All Over Again”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.”
“Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.”
“I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.”

Source : "Rachel Maddow Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. October 26, 2009.
“Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.”

Source : "Jimmy Iovine Is Going To Be Awesome For Apple" by Steve Kovach, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2014.

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