Colson Whitehead Quotes
Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.Colson Whitehead
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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We should all love animals.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
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Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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In law, especially back in '95 when I was breaking in, it was much more of an old boys' network.
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America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.
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Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.
Colson Whitehead
