Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Book

• No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Help
  • Support
  • Emotional

• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Red
  • Crime
  • Stock

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Mean
  • First
  • Princess

• 'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.

  

  Yuna
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Luxury

• I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Serious

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • She
  • Body

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Space

• I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • House
  • Singing

• Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Fall
  • Moving
  • Speak

• Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Best
  • Modern
  • Measure

• I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Night
  • Problem
  • Saturday

• In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Army
  • Year

• 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Popular

• It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Children
  • Wisdom
  • Medicine

• In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Philosophy
  • Principles
  • Capitalism

• If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Military

• The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

  

  Carol P. Christ
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• Canadians want to know that our trade with the United States will continue and that we won't get into any kind of trade war with the United States.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • War
  • Kind
  • Trade

• I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.

  Colson Whitehead