Colson Whitehead Quotes
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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
Yehuda Berg
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
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I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.
Paget Brewster
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
Zachary Levi
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Sally Ride
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I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
Edgar Meyer
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
Larry Page
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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.
Forest Whitaker
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Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
Ian Mckellen
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'Boom! That's the house, right there, Robert. That's house I'm doing a B&E (breaking and entering).' He looked to me and he said: shakes head and makes hissing noise through nose. Moment of silence. 'I don't know what that means, but I'm doing it.'
Dane Cook
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Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.
Matt Lauer
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As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.
Alex Wolff
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
Yves Tanguy
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
Paul Theroux
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When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'
Frank McCourt
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I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.
Colson Whitehead
