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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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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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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No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.
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You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.
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War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
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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
