Colson Whitehead Quotes
I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I enjoy talking about, but I don't feel compelled to talk about it.Colson Whitehead
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.
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The future is not a destination - it is a direction.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I enjoy talking about, but I don't feel compelled to talk about it.
Colson Whitehead
