Colson Whitehead Quotes
The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.Colson Whitehead
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.
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Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.
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For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.
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Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
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I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.
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The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.
Colson Whitehead
