Colson Whitehead Quotes
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.Colson Whitehead
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I'm an emotional person.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.
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It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.
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People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.
Colson Whitehead
