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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Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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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
