Colson Whitehead Quotes
I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.Colson Whitehead
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.
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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
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Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
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I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to invest less in the media that glorifies violence and more in entertainment that lifts up the values of love, compassion, and the best in human nature.
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I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.
Colson Whitehead
