Colson Whitehead Quotes
Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.Colson Whitehead
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.
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But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you're raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there's no one right answer.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
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Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.
Colson Whitehead
