Daniel Mason Quotes
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
Quotes to Explore
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.
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I chase after inspiring stories.
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I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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I don't eat white breads, and I'm off dairy due to an allergic reaction and because of what it does to the body. I've learnt a lot about different foods and how the body breaks it down and what happens when we eliminate or incorporate certain foods, and it's pretty fascinating!
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
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I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.
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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
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I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.
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You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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Jesus wants men who will rule well.
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My heart's in stage. Making Quadrophenia was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But "hurry up and wait" is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.
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White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
