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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This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private. Always have an ace in the hole.
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I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.
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Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
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(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.
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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
