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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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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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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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.
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I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
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If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes
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Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.
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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
