Colson Whitehead Quotes
I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.Colson Whitehead
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
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The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
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It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
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I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.
Colson Whitehead
