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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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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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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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.
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New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
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Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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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
