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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Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.
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The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
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I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.
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Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.
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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
