Colson Whitehead Quotes
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.Colson Whitehead
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.
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The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
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An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed.
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
Colson Whitehead
