Colson Whitehead Quotes
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.Colson Whitehead
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.
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It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
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People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
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I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn't matter.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God's love. In accepting the power of the Holy Spirit you can also transform your families, communities and nations. Set free the gifts! Let wisdom, courage, awe and reverence be the marks of greatness!
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Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
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I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
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It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.
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Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
Colson Whitehead
