Smiley – Quotes

I’m really not into

I’m really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That’s not my thing. You’re not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows. Erin Wasson

I’ve actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I’m not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more ‘up’, but I can’t, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time. Emily Browning

I was once doing

I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, \”Well, if I had a student like that I’d force him never to write like that again because … Read more

She liked him. She

She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else. Freya North

If I wanted to

If I wanted to connect like I do now, I’d have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. … Read more

I have known Tavis

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air. Dennis Prager

Going all the way

Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is. Cornel West

Let me tell you

Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way — because it’s had to give so much more … Read more

I don’t like smiley

I don’t like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can’t have the real me but here’s my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling. Chris Killip

I am drawn, as

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as ‘first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don’t fit, into their social worlds.’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie