Colson Whitehead Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
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Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
Colson Whitehead
