Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Now

• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Truth
  • Wonder

• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
  • Innocent

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learn

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Chance

• Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Time
  • Intelligent
  • Stubborn

• The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Country
  • Opinion

• If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Know
  • End

• I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Good
  • Work
  • She

• When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Modeling
  • Eyebrows

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Experience
  • Alone
  • Self

• I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Time
  • Business
  • Career

• I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Retail is now totally propelled by consumers and their needs. People can buy what they want in any way that they want it. That trend started a long time ago, and it has really changed everything.

  

  Kirsten Green
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Parents

• I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Lucky to have been where I have been Lucky to be coming home again

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Home
  • Friend
  • Lucky

• I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Experience